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Unity Cluster Package – Dragging and Dropping Components for Multi-projection Virtual Reality Applications Based on PC Clusters

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Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015 (ICCSA 2015)

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Virtual Reality applications created using game engines allow developers to quickly come up with a prototype that runs on a wide variety of systems, achieve high quality graphics, and support multiple devices easily. This paper aims to present a component set (Unity Cluster Package) for the Unity game engine that facilitates the development of immersive and interactive Virtual Reality applications. This drag-and-drop component set allows Unity applications to run on a commodity PC cluster with passive support for stereoscopy, perspective correction according to the user’s viewpoint and access to special servers to provide device-independent features. We present two examples of Unity multi-projection applications running in a mini CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment)-like (three-screens) system ported using this component set.

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  1. Federal Institute of São Paulo – IFSP Registro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Mário Popolin Neto

  2. Computer Science Department, Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCAR, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Diego Roberto Colombo Dias & Luis Carlos Trevelin

  3. Computer Science Master Program – FACCAMP, Open University of Brazil – Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Marcelo de Paiva Guimarães

  4. Computer Science Department, São Paulo State University – UNESP, Bauru, SP, Brazil

    Mário Popolin Neto & José Remo Ferreira Brega

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Neto, M.P., Dias, D.R.C., Trevelin, L.C., de Paiva Guimarães, M., Brega, J.R.F. (2015). Unity Cluster Package – Dragging and Dropping Components for Multi-projection Virtual Reality Applications Based on PC Clusters. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015. ICCSA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9159. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21413-9_19

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