Collaboration

Collaboration allows multiple users to see each other's avatar representations and interact in the same virtual environment. It requires the setup of a remote cluster so each collaborator must have their own VR hardware and computer with Vizard Enterprise edition. Follow the instructions below to set up collaboration:

Vizard 6 Users:

• • In the postInit function of the vizconnect config files for both master and client add the following code

from vizconnect.util import collaboration collaboration.init() collaboration.get().updateRepresentations("mark")

Vizard 5 Users:

• • Since the collaboration script is not included in the Vizard 5 installation, contact support@worldviz.com to get the collaboration.py file. Place the collaboration.py module in the demo launcher folder at the same level as the vizconnect config file on both master and client machines.

• In the postInit function of the vizconnect config files for both master and client add the following code:

import collaboration collaboration.init() collaboration.get().updateRepresentations("mark")

Both Vizard 5 and 6:

• In the cluster master app check the box for the client machine to connect to and disable show others and show me. The avatar representations are managed by the collaboration.py module.

• In the cluster client app enable observer, point to the client's vizconnect file, and disable show others and show me.

• Run demo_launcher64_via_vizard.py on the cluster master.

• A simple test to see if it's working is the boxstacker demo. The client user should be able to pick up the boxes.