A multiagent architecture for distributed virtual environments

This paper introduces a distributed virtual reality platform based on oRis, our dynamic and interpreted multiagent language. This platform, called AReViDis, has been designed for collaborative interactive prototyping. Thanks to the dynamic properties of oRis, we propose to let the designers of a system enter inside the system and dynamically build and modify the model. During an AReViDis session, this language allows the addition or the modification of virtual agents in a distributed virtual environment. These modifications may either be introduced by the agents themselves or by the users through various human computer interfaces. These modifications may also be received by the network allowing communications in shared virtual worlds.