From: salnick@dejavu.spk.wa.us (There is no substitute for displacement...)
Subject: Re:  TECH: Re: World Descriptions
Date: 20 Jul 92 13:18:43 GMT



I have been following this discussion with great interest, since I
believe that it represents the first (real, public) conceptual design
of distributed VR.  

My $0.02 worth: Assume that the ONLY constraint is network bandwidth.
Do everything you can to minimize traffic over the net - even if this
means more work for the VRStation.  In fact, USE CPU wherever possible
to minimize network traffic.  Remember, 100 MIPS VRStations will be
available this year, and the curve is steepening.  (And the Net is
getting busier all the time...)

For what it is worth, I think that the minimum traffic will result if
objects are responsible for themselves.  That is, the VRStation
originating an object should be fully responsible for it (except for
its actual rendering - this would be the responsibility of each of the
other VRStations on the net... if the object is within the 'range of
interest').

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