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Workshop on Intelligent Hypertext

Workshop on Intelligent Hypertext

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Exploring annotated 3D environments on the World Wide Web

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The long-term goal of combining virtual reality and the Internet is to create networked multi-user simulations of virtual environments. The Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) represents a limited but significant step towards this goal by creating a standard data file format for representing 3D scene information, together with hyperlinks for associating it with other types of Web documents. The recent adoption of the VRML-2.0 standard, which extends VRML-1.0 to add behaviors, will bring this goal closer, but much work remains to be done. This chapter gives a brief summary of VRML and then describes two significant projects currently under development based on i3D, a high-performance VRML browser developed by one of the authors. The first of these, currently being used at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), uses an annotated virtual environment to visualize and walk through the physical design of the new Lepton-Hadron Collider (LHC) before it is built. The second project, “Virtual Sardinia”, allows the user to tour a 3D terrain visualization of the island and access historic and tourist information through hyperlinks.

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  1. UMBC, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, 21250, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Enrico Gobbetti & Russell Turner

  2. CESDIS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Enrico Gobbetti

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Gobbetti, E., Turner, R. (1997). Exploring annotated 3D environments on the World Wide Web. In: Nicholas, C., Mayfield, J. (eds) Intelligent Hypertext. WIH WIH 1994 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1326. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0023958

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