User manual

the issues about technological deployment, which becomes almost critical in the

context of multi-user consumption – and deployment is usually not a topic of

discussion in similar research.

In addition, one needs to consider that once a class gets allocated a 15 minute

timeslot, a problem arises of how to distribute that slot between student groups within

the class, yet at the same time allow student groups to visualise how their particular

part relates to the entire programmed show. Because of such consideration, the

current version of the prototype does facilitate collaboration – however, that is a non-

real-time, asynchronous collaboration, with a slow frequency of information exchange

(a comparison can be made to interaction through an online forum, or e-mail

communication). For that matter, most games and academic research focuses on

multi-user interaction and collaboration in, ideally, a real-time setting; instead, here

the focus is on the individual user interaction with the world, and the collaborative

aspect is expressed through the principle of dividing a class allocated timeslot in group

slots, and giving the end users per-group permission.

Let’s just mention that on the matter of technology deployment, the

development on this project focused upon web browser plugins as a delivery

technology for 3D; although this does not seem to be a hot topic of discussion at this

moment, online documents like [8] or [12] can serve as a starting point. Finally, we

should note that the specific focus on usage of light projectors is also not much

present in the projects of this kind, that mostly deal with software development and

networking – most of the research in that area seems to be conducted internally

within the industry (possibly because of the prohibitive prices of such equipment).

Some of these issues are elaborated in more detail further on in this report.

"DMX Director" - Architecture of a 3D light-programming application, in a multi-user Internet environment