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Three-dimensional Internet developments

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This paper describes the application of Internet-based three-dimensional (3-D) user interfaces, comparing them with more traditional two-dimensional (2-D) interfaces. The modelling of 3-D worlds in the Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) is described, together with an overview of VRML and its likely future direction. Multi-user shared environments, which enable Internet users to meet and communicate with each other in cyberspace via avatars (3-D representations of users), are then introduced. A shared information garden is described which allows people to meet and share information in a dynamic, information-rich, virtual environment.

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Crossley, M. Three-dimensional Internet developments. BT Technology Journal 15, 179–193 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018657329207

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