From diderot@hitl.washington.edu Wed Mar 22 16:31:45 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA04989; Wed, 22 Mar 95 16:31:45 -0800 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA18149; Wed, 22 Mar 95 16:31:44 -0800 Received: by hitl.hitl.washington.edu; id AA12992; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:27:26 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:27:26 -0800 X-Sender: diderot@hitl.washington.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: scivw@hitl.washington.edu From: Jerry Isdale <72662.410@compuserve.com> (by way of diderot@hitl.washington.edu (Toni Emerson)) Subject: IRVR/FAQ Status: OR Toni: an update for your CompuServe part... The COMART section is long gone. Delete the reference to it, please. Same for the GraphDev area. Below is a description of some of the current areas. Thanks for goosing me on this. I need to get a full presentation together for the Meckler Conference. ... Yep, Tracy Swedlow got me to commit to speaking on her panel, even though the 25th is my wedding anniversary. . Looking forward to meeting you there!!!! There are a number of areas on CompuServe (CIS) that would be of interest to the readers of sci.v-w and the VR community. The largest and most active area is CyberForum, with 19 different discussion areas on Building Realities, VR Technology, Gaming and Entertainment, Visual Compuserve (a project to build a VR interface to CIS), Cyber Arts, NanoTech, Artifical Life, Computers and Society, etc. The forum also offers a large number of files in its libraries. These range from fictional stories and art work to source code and virtual worlds for Mac and PC. There are several regular weekly online conferences (Chats) scheduled at different times for the convience of our American and European members. Other CompuServe forums that have discussion areas on VR include AIExpert (sponsored by Miller Freeman Magazine - VR Special Report folks), EdResearch (Educational Research) and the GameDev (Game Developers) Forum. The latter is home to a number of noted authors and developers. Another area of interest might be the GraphDev forum, which is still home to the Fractal (FractInt) and Raytracing (POV Ray) developers. Aside from the VisCIS effort supported in CyberForum, CompuServe has announced a pilot project known as Reno, which is based on the Fujitsu (bought from LucasArts) Habitat system. This 2d graphical MUD-like system will be entering beta testing this spring (1995).