Model-Based View-Extrapolation for Interactive VR Web-Systems

High-speed networks which guarantee a minimum quality-of-service (QoS) enable the development of interactive Web-systems. This paper introduces a new paradigm for interaction with complex virtual worlds on the web, which utilizes both the server and the client simultaneously. The client generates the new views by extrapolating a reference view based on the locally available data, including the model. The server transmits only the data necessary to prevent an accumulation of errors. The model-based view extrapolation method avoids the use of textures which are view-independent primitives and therefore too expensive to be used in interactive applications over the network.