Re: Wasting bandwith about: Re: bandwidth wasting :-)

Scott Rousseau (scott@hitl.washington.edu)
Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:00:57 -0700 (PDT)


I suggest you take a look at the GREENSPACE project that was worked at in
the Human Interface Technology Lab. We had two participants from the
U.S., and two from Japan submerged in the same virtual environment
playing a game. To see more technical details check out
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/greenspace/

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On Fri, 20 Oct 1995, Olof Hagsand wrote:

> >
> >One thing though (possibly a new thesad!), I am not sure that many of the
> >things being discussed here will ever happen. At the moment, VRML is a fancy
> >way to navigate the WWW, nothing more. All this discussion of building
> >distributed worlds with behavoural extensions seems a bit far fetched....
>
> I would just want to point out that there are alesady such systems in
> existence: multi-user distributed VR systems with VRML capabilities
> and dynamic scripting behaviour. Take a look at the DIve system from
> SICS (http://www.sics.se/dive/), the Sony virtual society effort, etc.
>
> So it is definitely not far fetched. It is important to design it
> properly while it is still in the early phase.
>
> Olof Hagsand
> SICS, PO Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN
> Email: olof@sics.se Tel: +46 8 752 15 51 Fax: +46 8 751 72 30
>


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