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High interactivity in real-time environments requires new system design concepts for virtual reality environments. We will define our understanding of a modern system and describe the prototypical system Lightning, which addresses some of these new features.
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Blach, R., Landauer, J., Rösch, A., Simon, A. (1998). A Flexible Prototyping Tool for 3D Real-Time User-Interaction. In: Göbel, M., Landauer, J., Lang, U., Wapler, M. (eds) Virtual Environments ’98. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7519-4_19
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