[GOOD] = an especially useful page [BIG] = large page/long download (for the 14,400 connect) [NG] = unable to connect
Chris Hand' VR Stuff [GOOD] Another excellent collection of VR Resources and information.
Geo rgia Tech's Meta Virtual Environment's page, includes pointers to all the Web VR hot spots.
VR URLs on the VRASP web server.
Technical Reports Web-Sites [BIG]
The Software Technology Branch of Johnson Space Center VR home page.
Low Cost VR and PowerGlove - Daniel Lau [GOOD]
Rob Kooper VR Thesis (rob@IS.TWI.TUDelft.NL) [BIG]
1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics URL:
Carl Loeffler: "Distributed Virtual Reality: Applications for Education, Entertainment and Industry"
National Institute of Standards and Technology's Open Virtual Reality Testbed
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, ARI MacHTTP Server [BIG][GOOD]
VRML - The goal of VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) is to provide a
visual interface to the WWW.
The VRML 1.0 Draft Specification has been released. The draft, written by Gavin Bell of SGI and Tony Parisi of Labyrinth Group.
The Institute for Simulation & Training at the University of Central Florida Pages
The Applied Research Branch of the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center
Georgia Tech VR pages:
CAVE
Cyberterm - PC Based Networked Virtual Reality ProjectTechnical Reports Web-Sites [BIG]
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality
Sandy Ressler
Papers about a model implemented on top of the DIVE distributed VR system.
Journal of Computer Mediated Comunication More detailed information on _JCMC_, this issue, other special issues, the editorial board, and submission guidelines can be found on the USC gopher (through the Annenberg School of Communications) and at the _JCMC_ Web site.
JOVE - Journal of Virtual Environments
EVE - Encyclopedia of Virtual Envionrments
Various VR Texts
U
K-VRSIG
Another site of the UK VR SIG
Homebrew VR
There is also an FTP Site
set up for the Homebrew VR group
Norwegian Virtual Reality Society
SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering
Cyberia VR TV Show - Robert Campanell (robcamp@well.com) [BIG]
SimTV homepage introduces information of the show, sneak previews of the show, media kit including a title clip and other fun stuff. SimTV alternate link.
VR Slingshot Demo - Promo Page
To see pricing and subscription info about commercial reports on VR software and other commercial VR topics, as well as the monthly VR NEWS newsletter, please read our home page.
SGI
Virtua l Vision home page.
Telepresence Research The company provides contract research and development services including concept development, product design and prototyping, system integration, and world design for computer-generated Virtual Environments and video-based Remote Presence experiences. Products include the Telepresence Mobile Robot System, and a high-performance graphics and display platform for Virtual Environment presentations.
Criterion Software has just announced the release of 'CyberStreet', a hot new demo of its RenderWare interactive 3D API. CyberStreet, available for Windows 3.1, DOS, Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5, with its entirely perspective-correct texture-mapped, fully interactive shoot-em-up action scenes gives a glimpse of the future of PC gaming. Download of the Demo is available for Wind ows, DOS, Win-95 [BIG]
Imagina '95 - VR Conference
1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
4Cyberconf and the Art in Virtual Environments Symposium
The conference proceedings for the recent AIS 94 Conference held in Gainesville, Florida (University of Florida) are online on the newly formed IEEE Computer Society World Wide Web server.
Information about the Computer Animation '95 Film Festival
Jaron Lanier [NG]
Mihailo Alic (malic@BERT.EECS.UIC.EDU) Recent VR Work - Mpeg movies and GIF's of various VR projects.
3D modeled/rendered cyberspace comic, Virtually Reality.
M**s MOOs and MUDs text-based virtual reality systems
Xerox PARC's User Interface Research.
Lew
Hitchner
Consultant, Editor, Lecturer
Virtual Reality and Visual Simulation
There is a new VR-WWW Homepage at the IPA FhG (Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing, Engineering and Automation)
Come explore and become a part of WebWorld, a 3D virtual world you can travel in, build in, and visually link to other parts of the World Wide Web.
OSA OpticsNet can be reached through Mosaic/World Wide Web.
A German WWW-Site
concerning VR.
Our themes so far: VR in Architecture (VRT-based) - Psychological
Implications of VR (In German)
Future Quest is a brand new
series on PBS.
It deals with the net, VR and the future of our lives in general.
Delft University of Technology Virtual Reality research at the Delft University of Technology.
Project Isaac Simulating Virtual Environments. Lateiner Dataspace Home Page Information on research being performed at Lateiner Dataspace Labs; including papers on stereoscopic volume visualization and a proposed real-time, immersive volume visualization and simulation environment (Voxel-VR).
Cyberspace Research paper presented at 1st International WWW Conference, University of Geneva, 27 May 1994. Describes a uniform spatial addressing and cyberspace server methodology for Internet and its integration into WWW.
Eindhoven University of Technology The Calibre Institute is currently doing research into a multi-user multi-site VR viewer for architectural research purposes.
Intelligent Machines Lab -VR This Mosaic home page is for the MU Intelligent Machines Lab with corresponding info on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Real-Time Systems Engineering, and Graphics and Virtual Reality work. The h/s platform used for VR is a SUN Sparc10-ZX (Z buffering hardware) with WorldToolKit wtk2.0 Virtual Reality Software and a Polhemus Fastrak system of sensors attached to the EyeGen3 HMD, two Power Gloves, and other nintendo "shoot-em-up" devices (gun, steering wheel, nintendo controller, etc.).
Michael Heim, Ph.D., author of
The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality
mheim@earthlink.net
Toni C. Emerson Research Consultant Human Interface Technology Lab University of Washington Email: temerson@hitl.washington.edu
University of Washington
University of Waterloo
Another site of the UK VR SIG
USENET newsgroup comp.graphics
USENET newsgroup alt.cyberspace.tech
The BattleTech VR FAQ is available by WWW on the Gotham Globe. It's got the FAQ by N.W. Choe and Freya, images of the mechs for reference,both primes and variants, and other info coming soon.
Eric Thompson's Power Glove FAQ
Power Glove Serial Interface FAQ
The Graphics Archive.. your online WWW resource for Graphics Utilities!
GIG-Online, the WWW server of ElectroGIG Europe (3-D graphics)
Roller Coaster
WWW page
OR
Another Roller Coaster Page
Vital Signs, a group of artists and programmers at UCSD, are proud to announce a web site that documents and reflects the contents of Apparitions, a virtual environment and multimedia installation at the UCSD University Gallery as a part of inSITE94.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Rice - Graphics Formats
The place is designed to be viewed on a Macintosh, utilizing a Mosaic interface. Although it can be viewed with other WWW clients, and on other platforms, viewing on a Mac with Mosaic will most closely approximate the original design.
WebLouvre Just click on "WebLouvre", you can't miss it! :) If you have DNS nightmares, cure them with this alternate link to Louvre.
3DWeb's is an information resource for 3D computer graphics, as well as an on-line, up-to-date job board where resumes and job offers are posted in ever increasing numbers.
Justin [NG]
Wavefront's Information Server [NG]
VR and Telepresence Course (Ben Schneiderman) [NG]
Rice: [NG]
US Patent and Trademark Office. [NG]
Jon Neill
Resource Consultant
America Online Virtual Reality Resource Consultant
VRASPian
PCRVRJon@aol.com -or-
jneill@eagle.co.la.ca.us
Thanks to all who helped me put this page together!