ARéVi: A virtual reality multiagent platform

Abstract

ARéVi (in French, Atelier de Realite Virtuelle) is a dis-tributed virtual reality toolkit. Its kernel (a group of C++ classes) makes it possible to create cooperative and distributed virtual reality applica-tions by minimizing the programming eort. ARéVi is built around a dynamic multiagent language: oRis. At any time, this language allows to stop the ongoing session, to add new entities (known or not when starting the session), to modify an entity or an entire entity family be-havior. More generally, oRis gives the user the ability to interact with the agents by directly using their language, thus oering a way of immersion through the language.