From: malmgren@euronet.nl (Jens Malmgren) Subject: ONLINE: Poor mans virtual reality Date: January 14, 1996 From: malmgren@euronet.nl (Jens Malmgren) I have developed something that you could call 'Poor mans virtual reality' on my homepage. Some would not call it virtual reality since you cannot chose directions on the fly but you must go in premaked directions. Therefor I call it Virtual Studio instead of virtual reality on my Homepage. I am interested in how it is to walk in such a world. What do you experience with different constructions such as: Different size of pictures. Different tags on the navigation links etc. It is very interesting to see how the interior, the furniture, changes the experience for the wiever. More colorful and more interesting furniture helps people to navigate in my world. The responsetime is importent. This means that the design of the pictures must be done careful so that you transfer much visual information on so few bytes possible. Simple pictures, small pictures etc. The simplicity is overcome by the spead at some balanse of course. Not all pictures must be as simple. Here and there I have put in a picture with shades that take much more space. In my world you can walk around and find everyday things like elevators, stairs and (ehum) Robots. This framework is made with the thought that the viewer should feel home. But furthermore I have tried to play with the impossible: The viewer can look at a painting of my violin. Go nearer, nearer and: Whoops she is inside my violin. Give my virtual studio a try. It is not state of the art but still fun. On the first 80 days I had 3500 visitors (or near). Approx 12 accesses per visitor. It is interesting to see how people behave when viewing my world. Some walk straight on until a wall and then desides what to do. Others are shopping around and walks forward, turn around, and takes some step to the side and so forth. In the future I will rebuild my virtual studio with 3D-pictures. You can see the beginning of this work on my homepage under the 3D-picures section. Twice as much work for even more virtuality. The question is: How many can look at 3D-pictures without any viewingtool? 50% of the population? Jens Malmgren (Scientist, Artist, Programmer, Inventor, Musician, Enterpriser Etc)