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Software architectures are particularly useful when designing complex systems. Apart from facilitating the design, development and evolution processes, software architectures help developers who are new in the domain to understand the design issues involved, reducing the learning effort. In this work we present a software architecture for virtual reality systems. This architecture applies patterns common in other interactive systems, such as the Model-View- Controller, and also identifies new patterns proper of the VR domain, such as the scene graph. In addition, in the proposed architecture we have identified the variability points needed for adapting and evolving such VR systems.
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Capilla, R., MartÃnez, M. (2004). Software Architectures for Designing Virtual Reality Applications. In: Oquendo, F., Warboys, B.C., Morrison, R. (eds) Software Architecture. EWSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3047. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24769-2_10
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