System for Collaborative Data Sharing

collaborative data sharing, collaborative virtual environments, distributed virtual reality, consistency model, network synchronization

The system provides collaborative interaction capabilities for several possibly distant participants. The participants can collaboratively view the model, focus on different parts of the model, and collaboratively interact with the model. The interaction is demonstrated by a tool that is able to extract piece of geometry from the model. The participants share the tool collaboratively and they make the changes to the model together.