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Virtual Reality

This page contains pointers to information sources on VR of various type : (1) general catalogs, (2) a list of labs and organisations, (3) bibliographical data, and (4) miscellaneous informations sources that don't fit anywhere else. You might also want to take a look at another page about VRML.

		Catalogs & Publications
		Introductions : What Is Virtual Reality? : A Homebrew Introduction and Information Resource List. EVE : The Encyclopedia of Virtual Environments. VR.ORG : FAQs, Web Sites, Info, Lists etc. DMOZ Entries for VR. Virtual Reality at Yahoo. Virtual Reality at the Virtual Library. Virtual Reality at l'INA. VRNEWS, the leading virtual reality publication(including it's Tech Review. VR Knowledge Base : IRVR : Information Resources in Virtual Reality. On The Net : Internet Resources in Virtual Reality. VRU - Virtual Reality Update. VRStuff by Chris Hand. VResources. Dave Snowdon's information page on VR journals and conferences. sci.virtual-worlds news group : FTP. Meta-FAQ. Read First FAQ.

		Labs & Organisations
		Europe : United Kingdom : UK-VR SIG. FIVE : Framework for Immersive Virtual Environments, ESPRIT Working Group 9122. Advanced Interfaces Group of the University of Manchester. United States : Colorado : NAVE - Navigating and Acting in Virtual Environments, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder. Illinois : Virtual Environments Group, Virtual Reality Lab, and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Industrial Virtual Reality Institute, Department of Mecanical Engineering, University of Illinoi at Chicago. Massachusetts : Virtual Worlds Project, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT. Michigan : Virtual Reality Laboratory, University of Michigan. Washington : HITL - Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Washington Technology Center,

		Bibliographies & Conferences
		VR Bib. Bibliographies, Indices, Compilations. Distributed Virtual Environments Bibliography. Virtual Interface Technology, Selected Citations from the Literature. Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments Conferences (many more at sci.virtual-worlds ftp site, including past venues).

		Miscellaneous
		Tools & Libraries: Maverick. Web Developer's Virtual Library: VR. Open Virtual Reality Testbed. The CAVE : A Virtual Reality Theater (see also here). Commercial offers : Division, makers of dVS. Sense8, makers of WorldToolKit and World Up. Apple's QuickTime VR. Distributed Virtual Reality. VR and Art : Osmose : read the feature articles about it in Wired and CG&A.