Virtual Reality

"Identity Workshop: Emergent Social and Psychological Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Reality" by Amy Bruckman
(March 1992, non-fiction, unpublished manuscript... available via anonymous ftp)

"Virtual Professional Community: Results from the MediaMOO Project" by Amy Bruckman and Mitchel Resnick
(199?, non-fiction)

"Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities" by Pavel Curtis
(199?, non-fiction... available via anonymous ftp...
"general introduction to LambdaMOO and MUDding." --Sherry Turkle.)

"The Psychodynamic Effects of Virtual Reality" by Leslie Harris
(abstract, published in The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture 2, 1, February 1994...
available online -- could someone send me both the URL for the abstract and for the journal itself)

• The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture
  (online virtual reality journal...
  could someone please send me the URL)

• CyberEdge Electric
  (online version of this virtual reality newsletter)

• 3D Artist Magazine
  ("dedicated to those who make or aspire to make an artful livelihood with computer 3D graphics"... from Sante Fe, New Mexico... also some very good gallery links from here)

• Virtual Reality: Special Report
  (this magazine was mentioned by Linda Jacobson in her bio, but I haven't seen a copy yet)

• VRML World
  (new magazine replacing VR World ... a bit on the commercial side... new location, new look - January 1996)

• Web Developer
  (US-based internet magazine... for professional web weavers and site builders)

• WEB Techniques
  ("solutions for internet and web developers"... articles, tutorials, sourcecode, chat, news, polls)

Addicted to Love
(1995, TV movie, US... directed by Paul Ziller... starring: Jeff Fahey, Ami Dolenz... science fiction thriller)
"A lonely man tries to bring his girlfriend back to life with the aid of a virtual-reality machine." -- (in Radio Times , 9-15 May 1998).

The Computer That Ate Hollywood
(1998, documentary, installment of BBC 2 Horizon series... first aired thursday 30 April 1998, 21:30, UK... big-screen SFX, computer special effects, virtual reality)

Lawnmower Man
(199?, feature film, US... starring: Jeff Fahey)

Virtual Slide
(1998, episode of the television series 'Sliders')
"Is it real or virtual? A real mind boggler." --Henry W.Targowski.

VR5
(1997, television series... starring: Lori Singer... executive producer on at least one episode, John Shirley)

*note: This section has moved to its own page.

Andrea L.Ames
(co-author with David R.Nadeau and John L.Moreland of The VRML 2.0 Sourcebook , John Wiley & Sons, 1996...
e-mail: andrea@sdsc.edu...
website: http://www.sdsc.edu/~andrea/)

Meredith Bricken
(VR developer, MOOs...
e-mail: meredith@aol.com)

Tom Erickson
(e-mail: ?... )

Kim Michael Fairchild
(e-mail: fair@iss.nus.sg... )

Dan Farmer
(ray-tracer, member of the POV-Ray team...
e-mail: ?...
website: Dan Farmer's Home Page)

Brian R.Gardner
(e-mail: gardner@apple.com...)

Sandra K.Helsel
(e-mail: san@well.sf.ca.us...)

Linda Jacobson
(author, VR developer...
e-mail: lindaj@sgi.com...
website: http://www.sgi.com/virtual_reality)

Dale Kirby
(VRML, website designer...
e-mail: da5e@rain.org... )

Myron W.Krueger
(VR developer...
e-mail: ?...)

Lutz Kretzschmar
(software engineer... author of Moray, ray-tracing software...
e-mail: 100023.2006@CompuServe.com...
website: http://www.stmuc.com/moray)

Michael W.McGreevy
(e-mail: mcgreevy@eos.arc.nasa.gov... )

Farid Mheir
(e-mail: farid@montreal.com...
website: Virtual Cities Repository)

Stuart Moulthrop
(e-mail: sm51@prism.gatech.edu... )

Howard Rheingold
(author...
e-mail: hlr@well.com)

Eduard Schwan
(Ray-tracing, author...
e-mail: esp@gryphonsw.com...
website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/espsw/)

Alan Wexelblat
(VR developer, author...
e-mail: wex@media.mit.edu...
website: Alan Wexelblat Homepage)

The Browseteria
(this site requires a VRML plug-in...
"The coolest VRML web site I have ever seen" --Jaime Muniz.)

Lightscape Gallery
(some truly spectacular VRML images here... check it!)

SMFA 3D
(3D computer animation at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA)

Virtual Reality
(Anachron Library entry... definition, plus external links to crucial VR websites)

http://www.sgi.com/virtual_reality
("...foundation of what will be a comprehensive resource for VR developers." --Linda Jacobson.)

Virtual Worlds
(resource... listing of virtual worlds, information, systems, reviews)

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