Multiuser Application
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!
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.