Virtual Reality & Virtual Simulation

Virtual Reality & Virtual Simulation Site ECE 577 Winter 1997 by: Anthony C. Portell

Welcome to the Virtual Reality (VR) & Virtual Simulation (VS) World Wide Web Site. On this page you will find many interesting facts and links about the field of VR and VS. The field is constantly changing and this page will be updated often. Today there is more commercial demand for VR & VS. In previous years just the military used VS for combat training. Today architects, doctors, and many more people are finding a use for VR & VS.

According to textbooks, virtual reality is "a system that creates an artificial three-dimensional (3D) world where the communication is interactive with immediate response" or "a computer-generated environment in which the
user is able to both view and manipulate the contents of the environment."

For people that don't know anything about Virtual Reality & Virtual Simulation here are some Benefits of VR & VS.

Here are a few Real Life Examples of VR & VS that I found on the Internet, you can see the field is growing quite rapidly and many uses are being found everyday.

VRML Information
Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)

Frequently Ask Questions about VRML

The Virtual Reality Modeling Language Specification

Samples of VRML on the Internet

(Note you will need the appropriate plugin to run this)

Calendar of VR & VS EVENTS
Events coming up in the Virtual Rality and Virtual Simulation World

Lecture Notes
I took all the notes from lecture on my laptop. Lecture Notes from "Virtual Reality in Engineering" ECE 577 Winter Term 1997

Places to Check out for more information on VR & VS.

Newsgroups and Journals on Virtual Reality

Live Virtual Reality Demo

Academic Research on the Internet

Government Projects in VR & VS

VR & VS Hardware

Virtual Reality Companies on the Internet

Virtual Reality Chat Line

Careers in Virtual Reality

What the web is doing for VR is really a good thing. There are a lot of companies out there that are making VRML tools

for the web and making pluggins to display VR equipment very easily. The communications of the Internet is a great too for the fact of talking to other people and finding out what work people have already done on their subject. Also for asking questions and getting in contact with people that work in the same field as you. Make sure you check out the links to the Academic Research the Internet to see all the reasarch going on in the field.

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Virtual & Virtual Simulation Site was created by: Anthony Portell . For a graduate level project for ECE 577 "Virtual Reality in Engineering" at University of Michigan. Created on 04.16.97. All the logo's used in this site are copyrited by their original owners.