VAV lectures on virtuality 1999

18th March 1999

virtual reality: definition, technology and VRML

22nd April 1999

using 3D for visualisation and visualising 3D

resources

draft of section on information visualisation from my HCI Book 2nd edition

last years's VAV virtuality notes

(not too different from this year's notes!)

one of my papers on space and time from FADIVA worskhop in 1996

my research topics page on visualisation

this just has links to my own papers, but you can use these to chase further references

Java demonstration of interactive stacking histograms

Encyclopedia.com articles on virtual reality and multimedia

research groups elsewhere

the GVU centre at Georgia Tech

extensive pages on: scientific visualisation, data visualisation, and biomedical applications of VR/visualisation

Lancaster University's VR group

work extensively on: collaborative virtual environments, populated information terrains (collaborative data visualisation) and also have two world building tools AC3D and VR-Mog

Nottingham University's Communications Research Group

great work on: distributed collaborative VR and also 'inhabited' TeleVision

(they also have done great arts events including distributed VR poetry reading, but I can't find pickies on their site, if you find it let me know!)

UCL's Virtual Environments and Graphics Group

this has recently moved from QMW and their pages don;t seem fully sorted yet, but they do have useful links to other web resources

The Committee (location unknown) working on the omega point - VR.5

VR.1 - static flat image

VR.2 - limited control video games

VR.3 - moving ina simulated 3D world

VR.4 - Cyberspace

VR.5 ... [[classified]]

see leaked reports at **** also at XXXX