Design and Implementation of a Distributed Framework for Mobile Mixed Reality Systems(<Special Issue>Mixed Reality)

Abstract

This paper describes design and implementation of a distributed framework for creating mobile mixed reality (MR) systems. The goal of the framework is providing the same MR space for a variety of mobile devices which connect via wireless network. This paper discusses the following three topics which are essential for designing our framework: system architecture for supporting diverse mobile devices, an easy-to-implement script language for developing applications, and a communication method which takes into account the operability of the users. We implemented our framework based on the proposed design and investigated its performance empirically. As a result, we confirmed that various kinds of mobile devices can share the same MR space using our framework.