With your hardware and software in order, it's time to explore the brave new worlds of the Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML). As is usual on the Internet, there's a tremendous variety of material. Here are some of the most interesting sites:
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http://bug.village.virginia.edu
Filmmaker David Blair,
with artists and virtual-reality gurus, is turning his movie WAX: or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees into a 9000-virtual-room 3-D experience, wi
th a soundtrack in English, Japanese, French, or German.
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http://www.addict.com/ATN/Sonic_Lodge/register.html
The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA),
a popular site to download off-mainstream tunes, is now working with Mark Pesce. It contains a Sonic Lodge living room with a virtual sofa, virtual magazines (that tap into existing IUMA World Wide Web pages), and a virtual CD player to play music.
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http://www.hyperion.com/planet9/vrsoma.htm
Virtual SoMa links the Web pages
of businesses in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco in a 3-D street scene.
-- gopher://boombox.micro.umn.edu:70/11/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher
The University of Minneapolis gopher team offers TurboGopher VR,
a client application that shows "Gopherspace" as virtual buildings representing files and directories, and advertising their content on billboards.
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http://www.sgi.com/products/webforce/stock1.wrl
A Web-server script can generate VRML images on the fly.
For example, Clay Graham of Silicon Graphics has a script to display the company's current stock price as a financial thermometer.
Exploring the Worlds
