Virtual Reality
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Active Worlds
(VRML browser from Worlds Inc... also Worlds Chat, a graphic interface for IRC... plus links to online communities)
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Black Sun Interactive
(VRML browsers and authoring tools... CyberGate, CyberHub, CyberSockets... avatar gallery, links to virtual worlds... european visitors should check the German mirror-site)
Breeze
(shareware, 3D modelling program... uses the POV-Ray search engine)
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ExpressVR
(VRML software plug-in for the Mac... created by Brad Anderson)
Extreme 3D
(authoring tool, software)
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Fifth Dimension Technologies
(uncertain if this is a shareware or strictly commercial site... feedback welcome... P.S. I liked the ascii dinosaur in David's e-mail signature)
"5DT develops virtual reality software as well as the 5DT Data Glove." --David Joffe, Computer artist, BSc Computer Science 3rd year, University of Pretoria... e-mail: Dj1@pixie.co.za... personal website: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2018/.
FutureSplash
(vector-based animation plug-in... using advanced compression techniques to provide real-time updating... zoom control, anti-aliasing, outline fonts support)
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Hyperwire
(visual authoring tool... from Kinetix... download free copy)
"For creating 2D or 3D web titles, lets you take a 3D world created in any VRML-compliant tool and add cameras, control lighting, create animations, and change the navigation controls--without writing any Java code." --Sue Wilcox, in WEB Techniques , Volume 1, Issue 9, December 1996.
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Jutvision
(3D animation plug-in... from Visual Dynamics... allows 360 degree rotation, full perspective, zooming)
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The Official Moray Homepage
(3D modelling program written by Lutz Kretzschmar and Marcus Lutz... you'll also need Pov-Ray and/or Polyray to make renderings...
this is the software used for making the Mark/Space ray-traced images of Anachron City... highly recommended)
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The Official Moray Homepage
(3D modelling program written by Lutz Kretzschmar and Marcus Lutz... you'll also need Pov-Ray and/or Polyray to make renderings...
this is the software used for making the Mark/Space ray-traced images of Anachron City... highly recommended)
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The Palace
(shareware... allows for visual representations in IRC)
PanoramIX
(formerly Surround VR... VRML software... from IBM's TJ Watson Research Center)
"PanoramIX lets you interactively view panoramic scenes; CG images, photos, or sketches can be used to make panoramas. It supports realtime zoom and pan, full 3D animated sprites that move in true depth, and even avatars in a chat room." --Sue Wilcox, in WEB Techniques , Volume 1, Issue 9, December 1996.
Polyray
(ray-tracing program)
POV-Ray
(Persistance Of Vision, virtual reality engine... shareware written by Steve Anger, Steve A.Bennett, David K.Buck, Aaron A.Collins, Alexander Enzmann, Dan Farmer, Douglas Muir, Bill Pulver, Robert Skinner, Scott Taylor, Grew Wells, Chris Young...
ftp site: ftp://ftp.povray.org/...
there's a lot of good links at this site as well... highly recommended... check it)
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RealVR
(VRML software... free plug-in... from RealSpace)
"Their RealVR Traveler gives you panoramic viewing, VRML 2.0 objects, IMOBS, video and audio playback, and Internet-browsing facilities all in one product." --Sue Wilcox, in WEB Techniques , Volume 1, Issue 9, December 1996.
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Structural Elements
("You may find my Web page interesting. It may give you some new tools to work with. It takes the elements of Plato and the Solids of Pythagoras and looks at them in a different light. It uses 12 basic elements of nature based on proportional lengths stemming from the progressions of the fibonacci series, the series which is the basis of structure in nature, and uses them in designing structures not unlike Fuller's, but much more functional." --Robert Conroy.
See what you think.)
SuperScape
(SuperVRML 3D software... free downloadable 3D viewer, Viscape, Visualiser... add-on to Netscape and Explorer browsers)
SurfaceSuite
(commercial software... from Sven Technologies... use their DigiTact hardware to digitize a 3D image of your face into the computer)
"Use SurfaceSuite to join the image to the 3D model and save the result as a VRML." --Sue Wilcox, in WEB Techniques , Volume 1, Issue 9, December 1996.
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Themekit Ltd
(commercial software house specialising in virtual reality graphics engines: MindRender, MindFormer... and retail outlet for hardware... e-mail: sales@themekit.co.uk)
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Virtual Places
(mobile chat client which employs 'avatars'... online community system... for Macintosh and PC)
VRCreator
(commercial VRML 2.0 creation software... from Vream)
The VRML Repository
(resource site... software repository at SDSC... includes descriptions)
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WebFX
(software... for new URL see Netscape Live 3D link above)
WIRL Interactive VR Browser
(a VR Web browser product, WIRL, and VR authoring software, VRCreator)
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