From news@dispatch.demon.co.uk Wed May 17 01:47:42 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA17488; Wed, 17 May 95 01:47:42 -0700 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA05174; Wed, 17 May 95 01:47:36 -0700 Received: from relay2.UU.NET (relay2.UU.NET [192.48.96.7]) by hitl.hitl.washington.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA13855 for ; Wed, 17 May 1995 01:42:58 -0700 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP id QQyqbz24169; Wed, 17 May 1995 04:47:32 -0400 Received: from dispatch.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id aa28329; 17 May 95 9:32 GMT-60:00 To: sci-virtual-worlds@moderators.uu.net Path: presence.demon.co.uk!john From: John Hough Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: VRML Modeller Date: 17 May 1995 09:32:43 +0100 Organization: Virtual Presence Ltd Lines: 66 Sender: news@dispatch.demon.co.uk Distribution: world Message-Id: <278500146wnr@presence.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: john@presence.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Newswin Alpha 0.6 X-Posting-Host: presence.demon.co.uk Status: OR London, 15th May 1995 - G WEB VIRTUAL PRESENCE, Europe's leading independent VR systems company will unveil G WEB, a new virtual world authoring software package, at VR95 in San Jose next week. G WEB is believed to be the first VR modeller designed to meet the new VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language) 1.0 standard announced last month. VRML enables Internet accessible 3D virtual worlds to be specified and linked to each other via 'portals'. Users will be able to enter and explore 3D spaces, and travel widely from world to world through 'cyberspace'. It is expected that worlds will be created for a wide range of commercial, social, cultural, educational, medical and other applications. They may attract millions of visitors using either home or business computers. HeadMounted Displays and other standard i/o devices will be supported. Support for VRML has already been announced by many major computer and graphics companies, including Silicon Graphics and the first VRML browsers have already been demonstrated for PCs and Workstations. G WEB is the latest member of the Virtual Presence 'Genesis' VR software family, whose users include many of the world's leading commercial and academic VR development teams. G WEB provides a 'point and click' graphical user interface (gui) and is designed to be used by people with no programming experience. Users can create their worlds from scratch, or they can import existing data - for example from CAD packages - and utilise G WEB's advanced database optimising tools to maximise performance from the VRML browsers on the target sites. Shipments of the beta release will commence June 1st for: Windows 3.1 (TM) Windows NT (TM) Silicon Graphics and on July 1st for: SUN Sparc (TM) Other platforms by demand - G WEB is intended to be a user-led product. We have some very special offers for our early beta clients - please call for registration details. You can get more information from our www site: http://www.demon.co.uk/presence/gweb.html which has all the details; alternatively, you can come to VR95 or you can call us: John Hough CEO Virtual Presence Ltd 6 New Concordia Wharf Mill Street London SE12BB UK Tel: +44 (0)171-252-2922 Fax: +44 (0)171-237-1360 e-mail gweb@presence.demon.co.uk 'Virtually all ther...'