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Foil 7 Possible Uses of VRML in Goethe-Institut

From Master Foilset for The Information Highway for Goethe Institut Annual Meeting at Goethe House -- 22 May 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
VRML is Very good 3D GIS (Geographical Information System) technology and can be used to generate on the Web, German countryside with other information superimposed
  • This information can specify cultural information either as an image/text overlay as a clickable interface to conventional Web sites
VRML is currently and perhaps intrinsically (numbers ascii) inefficient and Java is alternative / augmentation technology
  • We use Java client/server agents to generate VRML on the fly
VRML 2.0 will allow one to produce collaborative televirtual environments where user is immersed in a computer generated world
  • Aimed at Computer Gaming World but can be used to generate real worlds!

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