@InCollection{Gobbetti:1997:EAE,
author = {Enrico Gobbetti and Russell Turner},
editor = {Jim Mayfield and Charles Nicholas},
title = {Exploring Annotated {3D} Environments on the World-Wide Web},
booktitle = {Intelligent Hypertext: Advanced Techniques for the World-Wide Web},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {1326},
pages = {31--46},
publisher = {Springer Verlag},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
year = {1997},
abstract = {The long-term goal of combining virtual reality and the Internet is to create networked multi-user simulations of virtual environments. The Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) represents a limited but significant step towards this goal by creating a standard data file format for representing {3D} scene information, together with hyper-link information for associating it with other types of Web documents. Current proposals for extending VRML-1.0 to add behaviors will bring this goal closer, but much work remains to be done. This chapter gives a brief summary of VRML and then describes two significant projects currently under development based on {i3D}, a high-performance VRML browser developed by one of the authors. The first of these, currently being used at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics ({CERN}), uses an annotated virtual environment to visualize and walk through the physical design of the new Lepton-Hadron Collider (LHC) before it is built. The second project, Virtual Sardinia, allows the user to tour a {3D} terrain visualization of the island and access historic and tourist information through hyper-links.},
url = {http://vic.crs4.it/vic/cgi-bin/bib-page.cgi?id='Gobbetti:1997:EAE'},
}
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