From: diderot@hitl.washington.edu (Toni Emerson)
Subject: ONLINE: VR Societies on the Web
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:22:49 -0700


From: diderot@hitl.washington.edu (Toni Emerson)

2 sites that I have come across lately are VR communities being
"founded" on the WWW:

Sony's Virtual Society on the WWW:
http://vs.sony.co.jp/VS-E/vstop.html

The Virtual Society project is designed to realize the vision of a
virtual community through the "latest digital and networking
technology. The goal is a seamless community between real society and
electronic society..."

Sony offers software to download--

the Cyber Passage VRML Browser and the Cyber Passage Conductor VRML editor.

They will be demonstrating Cyber Passage at at the Imagina '96 from
Feb. 21-23, 1996 in Monaco.

There is an "Archive Showoff Gallery" available with VRML worlds to
download at:
http://vs.sony.co.jp/VS-E/Gallery/gallery.html

Cybertown:
http://www.cybertown.com

CyberTown isn't a VR site yet, however it's worth a visit.  Below is
an announcment from a great electronic resource, Flash:

http://www.citi.doc.ca/Citi-Mosaic/Citihome/ISIR/FlashInfoE/FlashinfoE.html

VIRTUAL REALITY ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB.  

Lack of bandwidth remains the main stumbling block in the
implementation of Web-based virtual-reality sites. Key enabling
technologies such as cable modems and upcoming price reductions in
graphics acceleration cards, however, may help 3-D Web worlds take
off. For a peek at a 3-D Web world, visit the Cybertown site at
http://www.direct.net.com/cybertown,where the beginnings of a complete
virtual-reality-based city are in place.

 To download the World's 3-D Virtual Reality viewer to establish,
tour, and set up your own virtual-reality-based apartment in town,
click on "The Colony". "3-D Web Worlds," PC Magazine 15 (1) Jan. 9,
1996, 31.


[Please note the change in the URL mentioned-- see: 

http://www.cybertown.com 

for Cybertown.

-T.E.]