%0 Magazine Article %D 1995 %T Building Multi-User Interactive Multimedia Environments at MERL %A Anderson, D.B. %A Barrus, J.W. %A Howard, J.H. %A Rich, C. %A Shen, C. %A Waters, R.C. %X Building multi-user interactive multimedia environments at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is a highly interdisciplinary activity, which involves the efforts of more than a dozen members of the laboratory. This report describes this research at three levels. At the bottom, supporting everything, are high-speed networks. On top of networks, we have built a piece of middleware called Spline. Finally, Diamond Park is an experimental environment we are building using Spline. %B IEEE MultiMedia %V 2 %P 77-82 %G eng %N 4