Multiuser  Application

DATEAfter years in the in­du­stry, our client be­came in­creas­ingly dis­traught by the dis­con­nect betwe­en hotel manage­ment sys­tems and the actual needs of hotels and their staff. The sys­tems were com­plex, cumber­some and built on out­dated soft­ware para­digms not al­low­ing hotel staff to focus on what’s impor­tant — their guests. This in­sight led to the per­haps blunt, but to the point brief: Design the future of hotel manage­ment.

SOLUTION
One of the big motivations for our exploratory project was the possibility of multiuser application. While the conventional 3D visualisation programs have no multiuser capabilities, VR allows one to develop an environment for cooperative work. The goal is to have a tool enabling scientists to work together on the same sets of data - manipulating it, discussing it, showing respective results to each other, etc. - while being potentially in different countries or even on different continents!

DISCIPLINE
DATEAfter years in the in­du­stry, our client be­came in­creas­ingly dis­traught by the dis­con­nect betwe­en hotel manage­ment sys­tems and the actual needs of hotels and their staff. The sys­tems were com­plex, cumber­some and built on out­dated soft­ware para­digms not al­low­ing hotel staff to focus on what’s impor­tant — their guests. This in­sight led to the per­haps blunt, but to the point brief: Design the future of hotel manage­ment.

SOLUTION
So far we have implemented basic multiuser functions supporting two users, with one acting as the server and the other one connecting as client. Right now we are working on implementing the more advanced features of our tool into the multiuser environment. The upgrade to more than two users is of course also possible.

DISCIPLINE
Overview