"Fan" page dedicated to, but not sponsored by, the VR games "BattleTech" and "Red Planet" put out by Virtual World Entertainment. Run by Norman "Beaver-1" Choe and Charlotte "Freya" Henkle, the list offers pilots hints, tips, rumors and stories with pilots around the world, including the international Virtual World sites in Japan and Australia. Representatives from VWE are present on the list, though not in any official fashion. For subscription information, send email to btech- request@world.std.com, and an automated reply will be sent to you.
To receive a copy of the FAQ (one is sent when joining the list), send
the words "info btech" in the body of a message to
"majordomo@world.std.com". The FAQ is also available online by ftp and
www.
http://http.bsd.uchicago.edu/~c-henkle/html/btech.html
Subject: Building Educational Environments Using Networked Virtual
Reality Software.
Purpose: A place for those building educational environments using
networked virtual reality software such as MUSE, TinyMUSH and Moo to
pool knowledge and discuss issues.
E-mail subscription request to cbnvee@mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu
with an informal message to subscribe.
Distributed Interactive Simulation Protocol and NPS software
implementation, DIS-List:
E-mail subscription request to dis-maint@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil .
The Distributed VR Mailing List:
A list for users of the DIVE VR system. The list is called "divers@sics.se.
Mail sent to this address will be sent to all members. To subscribe to this
list send e-mail to majordomo@sics.se with "subscribe divers" in the
body of the message.
The glove-list was created in 1991 to provide a rapid communication
channel to hackers adapting the Power Glove for use in low-cost VR
systems. J. Eric Townsend, jet@well.sf.ca.us, was the administrator for
this list. The actual PowerGlove Mailing list is nonactive. To quote the
administrator, "The PowerGlove mailing list is dead. (It fell on its head)."
However, there is a great HTML doc available on the WWW:
http://www.spies.com/jet/VR/faq-0.3.html
This purpose of the list is to create a forum for research discussion,
questions, etc. as well as to provide information
on the latest applications, devices, software, etc
To subscribe to the list, send a message to majordomo@asel.udel.edu
with SUBSCRIBE HAPTICS in the body. The
Subject: will be ignored. Upon subscription, you will receive more
information about the list, and how to obtain
information on list operation.
If there are any problems, please send a message to
haptics-approval@asel.udel.edu or myself at
j.p.fritz@ieee.org
Non-commercial list server for those interested in "low-cost" virtual reality
devices. To join, send e-mail: homebrew-vr-request@acm.uiuc.edu with subject of "subscribe." The Homebrew guys have an excellent FAQ
on the WWW:http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/homebrew/faq.html
Not exactly a mailing list, but I didn't have anywhere else to put it.
Part of Howard Rheingold's www.minds.com site, this "conversation" is
with the wise and funny Linda Jacobson (Silicon Graphics very own VR guru).
You'll hear about events and occurrences relevant to virtual reality,
"experiential computing," and immersive technologies and applications.
To get there, http://www.minds.com and click on "Conversations". Linda's
"Immersion Quest" is listed under "Edge Tech Conversations".
This is a mailing list based on the SGI monthly news magazine. The
types of articles published are: SGI press releases, SGI and related
product announcements, technical articles, training course schedules
and general information regarding SGI products and services. To
subscribe, E-mail:
To subscribe to the VeRGe-Events mailing list, send a message to:
verge-events-request@cyberworks.com with the message: "subscribe
verge-events" in the body of the message.
VIRTPSY is open to researchers, practitioners, and students of
psychology who are interested in the social contracts and interactions
within the enviroments known as Virtual Reality. It shall explore the
impacts of both text and graphic based enviroments on these new
avenues of interpersonal relations. VIRTPSY is available by free
subscription. To subscribe, send an email message to:
LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU
No subject heading is needed. In the BODY of the message write the
following: SUBSCRIBE VIRTPSY First Name Last Name
The Mailing List, sci.virtual-worlds is bounced off a BITNET site,
UIUCVMD at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. To sign on
this list, send a mail message to listserv@listserv.uiuc.edu or listserv@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu
The body of the message should read:
vworlds-list
The vworlds-list is an unmoderated list with the charter to discuss the
aesthetic and artistic aspects of virtual worlds freed from technical
constraints. To subscribe, send mail to vworlds-list-request@netcom.com for instructions. List Owner: Kevin Goldsmith, email: kevin@unitcircle.org.
Vworlds-biz Mail List
The list includes topics about any virtual world business from text-based muds to 3D Quake-like worlds, to full body-armor VR. To
subscribe regular list, send mail to:
vworlds-biz-request@lists.best.com
with this in the body:
subsingle OR
subsingle youraccount@youraddress
subscribe digest, send mail to:
vworlds-biz-request@lists.best.com
with this in the body:
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VRML Lists at SDSC, http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml/mailing.html
vrml-behaviors@sdsc.edu
vrml-modeling@sdsc.edu
vrml-vis@sdsc.edu
Mailing List for VR Professionals.
Posting address: vr-net@mtn.org
Administrative Address: vrpa@mtn.org (VR Professional Association)
If you would like to join, send email to sig-wtk-request@artemis.arc.nasa.gov
with in the body of the message the text "subscribe".
Maintained by NASA Ames Research Center, to submit postings email:
sig-wtk@artemis.arc.nasa.gov.
CBNVEE at mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu
Maintained by Eric Van Hensbergen.
Discussion of issues involved with distributed virtual reality environments. Topics include
architecture, protocol, file formats, standards, permissions, and other design details.
Send e-mail to distributed-vr-request@mail.csh.rit.edu with
the subject: subscribe The FAQ URL is http://www.csh.rit.edu/~airwick/FAQ.txt
Hypermail archive is available at http://www.csh.rit.edu/~airwick/hyper.html
DIVE Mailing List
Glove List
Haptics List
Homebrew-vr
Immersion Quest
Iris On-Line:
PowerGlove Serial Interface (PGSI)
Send mail to pgsi@uiuc.edu
RenderWare List
ftp site ftp.canon.co.uk
A mailing list for information about RenderWare If you want to join the list
send mail to listproc@canon.co.uk with
the first line: "subscribe RW-LIST <Full Name>".
VeRGe-Events
VIRTPSY - Virtual Reality Psychology
VIRTU-L
VRML Mailing List, http://vag,vrml.org
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Technical discussion on describing behaviors within VRML. Topics include how to add interaction and animation behaviors to VRML, scripting language issues, implementation details, and so forth Unmoderated.
Technical discussion on geometry description issues in VRML. Topics include features of current and proposed geometric primitives, import/export tools, compatibility with existing systems, implementation details, performance issues, cross-platform issues, and so forth. Unmoderated.
Technical discussion on the use of VRML in visualization. Topics include problems with the current VRML specification, suggestions for future VRML features, and design of a standard prototype set for visualization applications. Unmoderated
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