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Technical Issues in ArtWorld

• Distributed, multi-user system
  • Our solution to the synchronization / locking problem
  • Local free-run vs global lock-step
  • Tight coupling between viewer sequences and sound triggers
  • Retro-fit viewer

• Transfer of data
  • Multiple file formats
  • Conversion
  • Texture
  • Normals

• Trigger method

• Working in multiple locations

• Audio
  • Develop localized sound system
  • Telephony streams - new protocol

• Avatars

• Agents

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