Publications

M. E. Papka and R. Stevens, "UbiWorld: An Environment Integrating Virtual Reality, Supercomputing and Design," Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Syracuse, New York, IEEE Computer Society, 1969, pp. 306-307, .

UbiWorld is a concept being developed by the Futures Laboratory group at Argonne National Laboratory that ties together the notion of ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) with that of using virtual reality for rapid prototyping. The goal is to develop an environment where one can explore Ubicomp-type concepts without having to build real Ubicomp hardware. The basic notion is to extend object models in a virtual world by using distributed wide area heterogeneous computing technology to provide complex networking and processing capabilities to virtual reality objects.