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SmallTool-a toolkit for realizing shared virtual environments on the Internet

Broll, 1998

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Broll W
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Distributed Systems Engineering

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With increasing graphics capabilities of computers and higher network communication speed, networked virtual environments have become available to a large number of people. While the virtual reality modelling language (VRML) provides users with the ability to …
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