special people's, organizations', and companies' pages

Cindy's Findme is the most incredibly useful code fragment I have ever found. It was written by Cindy Reed-Ballreich. It allows you to find the position and orientation of your viewpoint in a world. Insert the code fragment into your world and then fire up your world as normal. Bring up the VRML console (in CosmoPlayer press "/"). Now as you move around in the world, your current position and orientation are printed out in the console (the position is expressed as 3 numbers, and the orientation is 4 numbers). When you are happy with the viewpoint, copy it from the console into the viewpoint node of your world. Utterly brilliant!! Sure saved me a lot of grey hair.

If you have some old VRML1 files that you need to convert to VRML2 then get vrml1to2

Pictures of Steve Guynup's demos of teaching and performing poetry online. Cati Laporte has also put her snap-shots online taken from the same session.

The Web3D pages at About.com - Sandy Ressler's online magazine and links directory about VR, VRML, and other 3D web technologies. This has become much more than an interesting place to read about things web3d - it is rapidly becoming a central repository of links to all manner of such info, people, and resources. And don't forget about the online chats held here every week on Wednesday at 9:30pm ET in USA which is Thursday 2:30am UTC time (better known as GMT) which is 1:30pm Thursday, Eastern Australian Daylight Saving time. Check here for the RealAudio speaking clock to avoid all the confusion surrounding time.

Vrml 3D Worlds by Richard Kapuaala (also known as Kahuna) Great stuff by a very talented guy - including free programs and a registry of worlds.
Our Computer - Bob Crispen's pages have lots of info and free programs, and his really neat VRML Works has heaps of great stuff including a really excellent FAQ on VRML.
Jeff Sonstein's home page - has a list of VNet multi-user worlds. Jeff's own vrmLab Town Square is one of the VNet worlds (see Stephen White's stuff at stephen's talker).
Texture Mapping in VRML - Cindy Reed Ballreich's definitive tutorials on textures
Welcome To Cyberspace - Chris Marrin's home page contains lots of useful help
construct - what a wonderful company! They have a lot of information, vrml models and scenes available for free download
stephen's talker - Stephen White's multiuser world uses a java client and server so no downloads!!
 Trapezium; A VRML Software company making online 3D work now - Chisel is an affordable, cross-platform, VRML tool written in java
 Kamil Dabkowski's Home Page - nice ideas
 Jed's VRML Stuff - Jed Hartman, with Josie Wernecke wrote The VRML 2.0 Handbook

VRML for Linux

3D Insects - Wow!! this is really inspiring stuff (although file sizes are rather big). Detailed, accurate VRML models by Alexei A. Sharov, Research Scientist in the Department of Entomology at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). I have always wanted to meet an ant face-to-face and crawl around on a spider... This will blow you away... very cool!

The Encounter at the ecafe - web broadcasts of LAVUG meetings
Virtual theatre - (VRMLDream) Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in VR was broadcast live on the internet in April 1998 coinciding with the VRML 98 symposium.

maddog's Studio - an incredible amount of info at his directory
Media Research Lab - particularly the Improv Project is worth looking at.
VRML . SGI . COM
Biota/Artificial Life - working group on artificial life, specifically reflecting ecological & biological systems
Floops! - what can I say? The worlds first weekly cartoon in VR!!
Dilbert Comes to Life - the world's second VR cartoon strip!

documentation

Working Groups

mailing lists

wear-hard - about wearable computing. Send e-mail with subject of  "subscribe"  to wear-hard-request@haven.org

tools

VapourTechnology - free tools on offer are:

• Dizzy - This is a little tool designed to combine multiple rotation fields into one, so that nested rotations can be represented with a single Transform.
• Peek - This calculates an orientation for a viewpoint based on a camera position, target position and up direction.
• Twister - Twister converts an Euler rotation (about the X, Y and Z axes) into an axis-angle rotation.

browsers

tutorials

RWX - renderware scripting file format is the 3D format used by ActiveWorlds, OuterWorlds, and City4ALL universes
eeps pages
http://www.renderware.com
 
 
 

VR Worlds (and objects)

Tracey Bezesky's Pond world (with the frogs)
The Tenochtitlan Web Site - this is where the example world used in The VRML 2.0 Handbook resides.
Mischek Bau AG - an amazing real estate world selling apartments in Austria - very cool
Inverse Kinematics - WOW! this is the way of the future! - jointed objects that work!!!
Jamko - a Japanese anime-style VRML girl whose limbs all move
3D Insects - Wow!! this is really inspiring stuff! Detailed, accurate VRML models by Alexei A. Sharov, Research Scientist in the Department of Entomology at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
A Bonestell Tribute - Wow!! one of my favorite Science Fiction artists' work represented in VRML. However beware, the files are enormous.
walksphere - J. Eric Mason's small planet that you can walk upon.
NASA's real-world data on a VRML Earth- chack out Hurricane Linda and the world's vegetation index
Rain Garden 3D Presentation
Vacaville High School
Pioneer Joel
Cool Worlds - hosted by Netscape
World of the Week - hosted by superscape
World of the Week - is this the same?
VRML : Get Floops! - what can I say? The worlds first weekly cartoon in VR!!
Enhanced Viking Lander QTVR - stand on the surface of Mars!!!
construct | projects
construct | VRML galore
free models at SGI
Free VRML Objects!
VRML Models
VRML Humanoid Animation Working Group
The KnotPlot Site - mathematical knots as 3D objects
David's Math ZoO
Dilbert Comes to Life - the world's second VR cartoon strip!
Avalon - formerly at avalon.vislab.navy.mil this is an enormous repository of tools and objects.

Irish Space Project - In 1997, with a group of volunteers, Len Bullard and Paul Hoffman led the successful effort to create a space adventure based on the real life adventure of an Irish famine ship captain of the mid 19th century. Known as the IrishSpace project, the result was a complete interactive VRML movie created for the Kerry County Museum in Tralee, SW Ireland.

Paul Hoffman (in a posting to www-vrml): Back in January 1997, John Griffin of the Kerry County Museum in Tralee asked in email to vrml.sgi.com whether there was an existing virtual-reality tour of the Solar System which might be used as part of their upcoming exhibition on Space Exploration. Shel Kimen (then of SGI), put the request up on the www-vrml list.

Len Bullard piped in with "sounds like fun - maybe some of us could volunteer to do this for the kids of Ireland".

Over the next 3 months, a world-wide team of modellers, programmers, and designers got together (just by email and the www) to build what might be called the world's first feature-length VRML movie. - Well, it's more of a radio drama with 3D imagery, but it does run about one hour and ten minutes if you listen to all the narration and limit your explorations in any one world.

Don Mayer, Bob Crispen, Richard Kapuaala, Dylan Brennan, Steve Okay, Dennis McKenzie, Len Bullard, Victor Kokaram, Niclas Olofsson, Paul S. Hoffman, Justin Couch

http://www.biota.org the Biota organisation brings together all manner of information and activities relating to virtual life.

http://www.cyberlife.co.uk Creatures -- amazing examples of artificial life and artificial intelligence that you can buy as a "game"

http://www.ccon.org The Contact Consortium, help to organise the Avatars events, among other things.

http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/ The project of ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories (ATR-HIP) was closed on 28th of February, 2001

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/ai/www Artificial Intelligence Research group at the University of Washington

http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/ai_point.html The Institute for Information Technology - Artificial Intelligence Resources

http://www.ai.mit.edu The AI Lab at MIT -- this place has to be one of the most exciting in the world.

http://ksl.stanford.edu The Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/ai/ The AI FAQs at Carnegie Mellon University

Interactive, multi-user worlds

stephen's VNet - VNet uses a java client and server so -- no special plugins and no explicit downloads!!

ElectraCity- was a project by Danny Stefanic and myself  to program the client and server in java, but Stephen White's VNet is available now and works on more browser-machine combinations than we could get our code to, so it now uses VNet.

VNet Worlds (this list & descriptions clipped from Jeff Sonstein's pages at

The vrmLab Town Square [US] - Operational since VRML first began, the vrmLab is probably the oldest continuously-displayed and -developed VRML scene in the world
Cyber-JRC [Italy] - A project of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Cyber-JRC extends experiments in "Tele-presence for Entertainment, Surveillance, and Training" through the use of VNet
The Digital Garden [Germany] - A "Final year Diploma-Thesis at FH-Nürtingen Germany" by Mirko Ross, "… plays with the characteristic garden picture formed by history…"
Forest World [Sweden] - The rolling hills of Niclas Olofsson's forest world
Electra City [Australia] - A peaceful island from the imagination of Miriam English
The Ancient Village Project [Germany] - A project of the German VRML Users Group (GerVRML), Oliver Schlueter's Ancient Village is designed to act as a set for theater performances and role-playing games
Browser Test World [Canada] - Available to test browser and plugin combinations, EAISimple.wrl contains the minimal elements needed to enter a VNet scene

construct's NTT exhibition world

OZ inc. - Oz Virtual (sadly, they no longer make MU worlds)
Black Rabbit - actually a MOO
Open Community - (see above, under documentation)
The Palace - actually a 2D chat world. For more info, see The Palace Guide and Information

hardware

miscellaneous VR links

VRML - Welcome from The Mining Company - online magazine about VR & VRML

rtime - multi-user server game software ( download - their download page)
http://blackrabbit.mudservices.com./
The Cup-O MUD Client
Help: Cold Help System

Real-Time Volume Rendering - MERL (Mitsubishi Electronic Research Labs?) are doing some 128x128 cubic processors.
Jan C. Harden works there and has put up an addChildren-removeChildren VRML example.

http://ballet.cit.gu.edu.au/Movies/

Kyoko Date -- DK-96 HOMEPAGE - the Japanese home page
Kyoko Date Info Page - pages about Kyoko by someone in France
REALDOLL - I don't quite know what to think of this... but when androids are real these people will be making 'em

TerraVista
Virtual Theatre
Mirror Experiment papers The Mirror

Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence

Creatures
 

Biota/Artificial Life - working group on artificial life, specifically reflecting ecological & biological systems
Metaforms - artificial life working group concentrating on VRML aspects

Welcome to Zooland! - the most incredible resource of ALife links!!

Flock Applet: Boids in Java - Craig Reynolds, the guy who made the first boids
Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters - his latest(?) project

Technical Tierra

L-systems Software
Laurens Lapre's Lparser Links
Lparser

K - Conrad Parker's home page
psi=-ALife=-Boids - his boids example on a painted backdrop
 

Steve's Home Page - the page before his aquarium page which demos fish schooling
InterActivity Resources - the magazine entry page. InterActivity Magazine Resources - article on herding behavior
 

Artificial Life Herding - David.Brogan's herding applet and its source
David Brogan Information Page
 

Artificial Life and Genetic Algorithms
MatFa's Boids - he has a program with source freely downloadable
Jürgen Schmitz - System Design another freely downloadable program
The Live Alife Page - many different kinds of ALife here

http://www.biota.org
http://cyberbiology.org
http://www.cyberlife.co.uk
http://www.ccon.org
http://www-med.stanford.edu/creatures
http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/fatm/node10.html

 The sites above are primarily about the VR end of things, the
sites below are more interested in the AI portions:

http://aisun0.ai.uga.edu/~jae/ai.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/ai/www
http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/ai_point.html
http://www.ai.mit.edu
http://ksl.stanford.edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/ai/ai_general/top.html
 

Wearable Computing

Java

Java Development Kit 1.1.4
Java(TM) Media Framework FAQ

Magician - library of java-opengl interface seems way faster than java3d ,although java3d has a nice glossy 3dstudio look! and there is supposedly a vrml browser being made off of it too!

http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/vrml-java3d/

Javascript