Reducing lag in a distributed physics system through ahead-of-time simulation

An initial implementation

Bachelor thesis (2024)

Authors

G.T. Zonnenberg Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Contributors

A. Zaidi Computer Graphics and Visualisation - EEMCS (mentor)
Ricardo Marroquim Computer Graphics and Visualisation - EEMCS (mentor)
C.A. Raman Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics - EEMCS (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
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Published Date

27-06-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Abstract

Lag in Virtual Reality can be devastating to the enjoyment of participants. This paper reduces the lag in a physics system by implementing a subset of the architecture proposed by Loren Peitso and Don Brutzman. This subset contains an event based physics system together with a networking system. The collision system of the physics system has been heavily reduced in size, as to speedup development of the architecture.

This architecture seems promising and handles predictable cases with almost no noticeable lag. This architecture does not handle external events well, as the lag is noticeable. The `healing' process for unexpected external events should be researched further to make this architecture viable.

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