A Team Of Passionate People
The VASTVERSE is built by a team of researchers, developers, scholars amongst others across the globe.
VAST is a light-weight network library that supports Spatial Publish Subscribe (SPS) so that virtual worlds such as MMOGs and Second Life can be built more scalably.
Existing virtual worlds rely on static resource provisioning and partitioning that are expensive to deploy and have inherent scalability limits. VAST intends to provide an open source alternative that is scalable, affordable, and easily deployable.
A timeline of key VASTVERSE events
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2003
START
Voronoi-based Overlay Network (VON) research started
2008
FloD
FLoD: 3D streaming on VON published at IEEE INFOCOM (Shun-Yun Hu Ph.D thesis, advised by Prof. Jehn-Ruey Jiang)
2013
VAST.js
VAST ported from C++ to JavaScript
2019
Minecraft SPS
2020
VASTVerse
The public spatial infrastructure conceived (Victory Opeolu Ph.D thesis, advised by Prof. Herman Engelbrecht)
2021
SPS IM
Spat: Spatial Chat kickstarted (Charl Marais undergrad project, advised by Prof. Herman Engelbrecht)
Meet the Team
We are passionate about creating and delivering high quality work, meeting the business needs of our clients and ensuring the very best
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