Réalité Virtuelle

Abbreviations

• [GOOD] = Une ressource specialement utile
• [BIG] = ressource importante (en taille pour l'acces)
• [NG] = Impossible de se connecter

Sites de Realite Virtuelle

• Meta-VR
• VR Papers and Information
• VR Special Interest Groups
• Company Info and Demos
• Location Based Entertainment (LBE's)
• VR (and Related) Conference Pages
• Other VR Sites
• VR (and Related) FTP Sites
• VR (and Related) Newsgroups
• VR (and Related) Frequently Asked Questions
• Other Non-VR Sites
• No Good (Sites that I found that I can't seem to connect to!)

• Ned's Vr Index [GOOD] An excellent collection of VR Resources and information.
• Chris Hand' VR Stuff [GOOD] Another excellent collection of VR Resources and information.
• Georgia Tech's Meta Virtual Environment's page, includes pointers to all the Web VR hot spots.
• WebStar's VR Web Page.
• The NCSA VR homepage.
• URLs on the VRASP web server.
• Technical Reports Web-Sites [BIG]
• The Software Technology Branch of Johnson Space Center VR home page.
• On The Net
• EINet's VR Page

• A fairly complete glossary of VR terms. [GOOD][BIG]
• Low Cost VR and PowerGlove-Daniel Lau [GOOD] http://www.twi.tudelft.nl/~kooper/Thesis
• (rob@IS.TWI.TUDelft.NL) [BIG]
• PRESENCE URL:
• 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics URL:
• "Distributed Virtual Reality: Applications for Education, Entertainment and Industry"
• National Institute of Standards and Technology's Open Virtual Reality Testbed
• U.S. Army Research Institutefor 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.
  • Virtual Reality Markup Language
  • List of Goals
  • Current projects
  • A second VRML forum site.
  • 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:
  • Institute home page
  • Dynamic Terrain
  • Virtual Environment
  • Polyshop
  • Toy Scouts
  • Virtopia
• The Applied Research Branch of the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center
  • Applied Research Branch
  • Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation
  • NASA
  • Technical Papers
  • Scientific Visualization
  • Virtual Reality Area
• Georgia Tech VR pages:
  • DVE
  • CDS
• CAVE
  • Cave home page
  • Cave Technical Report
• Cyberterm - PC Based Networked Virtual Reality Project
• Technical Reports Web-Sites [BIG]
• Medicine Meets Virtual Reality
• Sandy Ressler
  • NavigatingThrough Information Take the "virtual lab tour"
  • Approaches Using Virtual Environments with Mosaic.
• 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 Web site.
• JOVE - Journal of Virtual Environments
• EVE - Encyclopedia of Virtual Envionrments
• Various VR Texts
• Toni Emerson Information Resources in Virtual Reality (IRVR)
• Bill Cockayne VRSites List.
• Nickolaos Fotis (nfotis@ntua.gr) Computer Graphics Resource Listing (Oct., 1992) Part2
• Jerry Isdale - What is Virtual Reality? A Homebrew Introduction whatisvr.txt
• Gloria Molendi and Matteo Patriarca - Virtual Reality: Medical Researches (1992) Technical Report Number 1/92. Milano, Italy: Universita' degli Studi di Milano.
• J. Prothero, ; T. Emerson and S. Weghorst - VR/Telepresence and Medicine Sources (1993) Technical Report BMed-93-1. Seattle, WA: Human Interface Technology Laboratory.
• V. Pantelidis Virtual Reality and Education: . (1994)
• Medicine and VR
• Bibliographies
• NCSA VR information.
• Open System Online Exhibition

• sci.virtual-worlds Meta-FAQ
• Edinburgh VR SIG
• UK-VRSIG
• Another site of the UK VR SIG
• SIGGRAPH
• Homebrew VR
• FTP Site set up for the Homebrew VR group
• Norwegian Virtual Reality Society
• --The International Society for Optical Engineering
• Boston Computer Society

• Todd Porter 2Morrow
• 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.
• - 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 Performer
• Interviews FTP
• Performer FTP
• Virtual Vision home page.
• OnRamp
• 3D Millennium
• Meckler's WWW site
• 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.
• Windows,Download of the Demo is available:
• DOS,
• Win-95 [BIG]

• BattleTech HTML Pages
  • The official VWE server - makers of BattleTech (under construction)
  • Une autre
  • The BattleTech World Wide Web Node - morrisa@cs.ualberta.ca
  • The B-Tech 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.

• FIVE '95 First Annual Conference of the European ESPRIT Working Group Framework for Immersive Virtual Environments To be held in London, 9-10 November, 1995.
• Imagina '95- VR Conference
• 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
• 4Cyberconf and the Art in Virtual Environments Symposium
  • Generality
  • Pixel Pushers Gallery of Digial Art
• 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

• The Human Interface Technology Laboratory is now on the Web. The HITL WWW server provides information on HITL projects, people, the Virtual Worlds Consortium and the Virtual Worlds Society.
• 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 M**s MOOs and MUDs text-based virtual reality systems http://www.ccs.neu.edu/USER/lpb/muddexMuddex Along these lines, folks may want to take a look at BSXmud. It's a graphical enviroment built on top of an LPMud. It's a client/server deal, it's very crude, but it's here *now* and the source code is available via Telnet: telnet://bsxmud.lysator.liu.se 7475:7475// http://www.lysator.liu.se:7500/mud/main.html BSXmud www page http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie:/dsg_people/koconnll/vr.html Karl O'Connell VR Page http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk:80/User/Andrew.Wilson/VR/ Cardiff's VR Page http://www.xerox.com/PARC/dlbx/uir.html Xerox PARC's User Interface Research. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hitchner/hitchner.html Lew Hitchner Consultant, Editor, Lecturer Virtual Reality and Visual Simulation ftp://ftp.ipa.fhg.de/pub/VIRTUAL-REALITY/WWW/homepage.html There is a new VR-WWW Homepage at the IPA FhG (Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing, Engineering and Automation) http://sailfish.peregrine.com/WebWorld/welcome.html Come explore and become a part of , a 3D virtual world you can travel in, build in, and visually link to other parts of the World Wide Web. http://www.osa.org/homepage.html OSA OpticsNet can be reached through Mosaic/World Wide Web. http://fsuj18.rz.uni-jena.de/jena/vrjv.html A German WWW-Site concerning VR. Our themes so far: VR in Architecture (VRT-based) - Psychological Implications of VR (In German) http://metaverse.com/futurequest/ Future Quest is a brand new series on PBS. It deals with the net, VR and the future of our lives in general. http://www.twi.tudelft.nl/ Delft University of Technology Virtual Reality research at the Delft University of Technology. http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/vanecek/projIsaac/homepage.html Project Isaac Simulating Virtual Environments. http://www.dataspace.com/ 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). ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mpesce/pubs/www.html CyberspaceResearch 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. gopher:://gopher.tue.nl/11/TUECIS/Bouwkunde/baub/bi Eindhoven University of Technology The Calibre Institute is currently doing research into a multi-user multi-site VR viewer for architectural research purposes. http://zansiii.millersv.edu:8080 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.). http://www.csulb.edu/~mheim/ Michael Heim, Ph.D., author of The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality mheim@earthlink.net http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/diderot/ Toni C. Emerson Research Consultant Human Interface Technology Lab University of Washington Email: temerson@hitl.washington.edu

University of North Carolina: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/virtual-reality/papers Papers ftp://ftp.unc.edu/pub/technicalreports/abstracts93 Abstracts ftp://ftp.unc.edu/pub/technicalreports/index Index University of Washington ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/virtual-reality Virtual Reality ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/VirtualWorlds sci.virtual-worlds archive University of Waterloo ftp://sunee.uwaterloo.ca/pub/vr/documents VR Documents ftp://sunee.uwaterloo.ca/pub/rend386 REND-386 Files ftp://sunee.uwaterloo.ca/pub/avril Avril Files ftp://sunee.uwaterloo.ca/pub/vr VR Info ftp://sunee.uwaterloo.ca/pub/glove Power Glove Files ftp://psych.toronto.edu/pub/vr-386 VR-386 ftp://ftp.apple.com/pub/VR Apple VR ftp://world.std.com/bcs/vr Boston Computer Society ftp://eta.lut.ac.uk/pub/usrgroups Another site of the UK VR SIG ftp://ftp.adelaide.edu.au/pub/cyberterm Cyberterm

file://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/virtual-worlds/Meta-FAQ VR META FAQ http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/sgi/faq/top.html SGI FAQ http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~joker/home.html The BattleTech VR FAQ http://wiretap.spies.com/jet/vr.html Eric Thompson's Power Glove FAQ http://www.acm.uiuc.edu:80/sigarch/pgsi/pgsifaq.html Power Glove Serial Interface FAQ http://www.acm.uiuc.edu:80/homebrew/faq.html Homebrew VR Mailing List FAQ

http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/story/index.html Internet-Controlled Robot On-Line at USC [GOOD] The system uses multimedia Mosaic software to provide access to the World Wide Web (WWW), a part of the Internet that facilitates the transmission of image and sound data in addition to text. Users who navigate to the system's electronic address arrive at an orientation window that explains the project and gives basic operating information about the system. http://www.rahul.net/bryanw/index.html The Graphics Archive your online WWW resource for Graphics Utilities! http://www.gig.nl/ GIG-Online, the WWW server of ElectroGIG Europe (3-D graphics) http://sunsite.unc.edu/darlene/coaster/coaster.html Roller Coaster WWW page OR HTTP://UL34839.UL.CWRU.EDU/ Another Roller Coaster Page http://www-apparitions.ucsd.edu 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. http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ftp//media-lab.media.mit.edu/pub/holography MIT Media Lab ftp//zamenhof.cs.rice.edu/pub/graphics.formats Rice - Graphics Formats http://gertrude.art.uiuc.edu/ludgate/the/place.html 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. http://mistral.enst.fr/WebLouvre Just click on "WebLouvre", you can't miss it! :) If you have DNS nightmares, cure them with http://137.194.160.11/ an alternate link to Louvre. http://www.lightside.com/~dani 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.

http://139.169.134.181/Homepages/GRAF_Lab Justin [NG] http://wavefront.wti.com/index.html Wavefront's Information Server [NG] http://gimble.cs.umd.edu/vrtp/vrtp.html VR and Telepresence Course (Ben Schneiderman) [NG] Rice: [NG] http://riceinfo.rice.edu/ES/Architecture/RDA.html The Rice Design Alliance-web pages http://riceinfo.rice.edu/ES/Architecture/RDA/VC/VirtualCity.html The Virtual City http://riceinfo.rice.edu/ES/Architecture/RDA/VC/BruceSterling.html Bruce Sterling http://riceinfo.rice.edu/ES/Architecture/RDA/VC/Sterling_VirtualCityBruce Sterling's speech http://www.uspto.gov/ US Patent and Trademark Office. [NG] [END]