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The 2-Second Commute: Join the Exploding Ranks of Freelance Virtual Assistants by Christine Durst, Michael Haaren, 2005-07 Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds by Celia Pearce, Artemesia  , 2009-09-30 Backfire: A Novel (The Virtual Reality, Book 3) by William Kritlow, 1995-06 Virtual Vandals (Tom Clancy's Net Force; Young Adults, No. 1) by Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, et all 1999-02-01 Training and Collaboration with Virtual Worlds: How to Create Cost-Saving, Efficient and Engaging Programs by Alex Heiphetz, Gary Woodill, 2009-12-15 Virtual Reality Therapy : An Innovative Paradigm by Max M. North, 1996-09 Virtual Schooling: A Guide to Optimizing Your Child's Education by Elizabeth Kanna, Lisa Gillis, et all 2009-06-09 The Deadly Maze: A Novel (Virtual Reality, Book 2) by William Kritlow, 1995-06 Virtual Reality Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Advances in Evaluation and Treatment by Brenda K., Ph.D. Wiederhold, Mark D., Ph.D. Wiederhold, 2004-09-30 Virtual Archaeology by Maurizio Forte, 1997-02-01 Learning and Teaching in the Virtual World of Second Life Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds: Strategies for Online Instruction (Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning) by Clark Aldrich, 2009-09-22 Virtual War: The Virtual War Chronologs--Book 1 by Gloria Skurzynski, 2008-04-14 Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments (Leonardo Books)

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41. NCSA VR Lab Home Page
    NCSA virtual reality Facilities. NCSA User Information. This section is primarilyfor users and programmers of NCSA's CAVE virtual reality display.  
    http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/VR/VRHomePage.html
    
    Extractions: Last updated: May 22, 1996 The NCSA Virtual Reality (VR) laboratory is a research facility engaged in the exploration of new methods of visualizing and interfacing with scientific data and simulations. This exploration is done in conjunction with researchers who want to investigate their science using interactive and immersive technologies. The laboratory is located in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology on the University of Illinois campus. We also collaborate with the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the development of CAVE TM applications and technology (also see NCSA CAVE As part of the visualization effort at NCSA, the goal was to study, develop, and use improved methods of representating, presentating, and interacting with scientific (and other) data-sets. In 1991, the NCSA VR Lab was created to began investigating the use of Virtual Reality (VR, also refered to as Virtual Environments - VE) as a Visualization tool. The CAVE, and other VR facilities at NCSA are now managed by the NCSA Virtual Environments Group (VEG) From the beginning, we were interested in exploring the capabilities of a variety of VR devices. These devices included a VPL Head-mounted Display (HMD), a Fakespace BOOM, and a large projection display capable of stereo, and tracking. After working with the CAVE by porting one of our applications to it for its introduction in the

42. InterFIRE, A Site Dedicated To Improving Fire Investigation Worldwide.
    virtual reality training for fire and arson investigators.  
    http://www.interfire.org/

43. VR Tours - The Virtual Reality Specialists
    Provider of 360degree virtual reality tours.  
    http://www.vrtours.com.au/
    
    Extractions: If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions then you need a Virtual Tour. VR Tours is your complete solution for everything virtual reality. Why limit the exposure of your property to just newspapers and a one hour inspection on the weekend. Reach a larger field of buyers by launching a Virtual Tour of your property with VR Tours A Virtual Tour saves both you and potential buyers loads of time. Buyers who are too busy to get to inspections are actively looking online for their next home. With a Virtual Tour, buyers can view your home at a time that suits both of you. Flat 2-dimensional photography is now a thing of the past, so get this latest technology working for you - and at competitive rates (cheaper than advertising in the local paper) a Virtual Tour certainly is worth investing in. Home I About Us I Services I How To Order I Sample Tour I Contact Us VR Tours I I

44. Virtual Reality Applications Center - Home
    The virtual reality Applications Center is an interdisciplinary research centeradministered by the Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT) at  
    http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/

45. Gesturing Toward The Visual / Carolyn Guertin
    Essay on the subject Gesturing Toward the Visual by Carolyn Guertin.  
    http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/gesture.htm
    
    Extractions: Dept. Of English, University of Alberta download .pdf version In 1989, the year that virtual reality was born, MacUser magazine published an article which proclaimed that: the ultimate goal of computer technology is to make the computer disappear, that the technology should be so transparent, so invisible to the user, that for practical purposes the computer does not exist. In its perfect form, the computer and its application stand outside data content so that the user may be completely absorbed in the subject matter (qtd, Ulmer n.p.) The rhetoric surrounding virtual reality, on the other hand, argues not for the disappearance of technology, but for a disappearance of the body in favour of existence as a state of pure information. Katherine Hayles has pointed out that the body is both informational and material object (6) and that it is only "when one duality is chosen over anotherwhen the body is seen only as informationthat its erasure seems possible" (6). This elision of the body nullifies the spiritual component of ourselves and precludes any notions of psychological transcendence that should be possible in physical experiences, particularly experiences like the creative act, art and lovemaking. "[D]isembodied theorizing" (Greco) denies both consciousness and the sensory input that is integral to our navigation of the world: that being the proprioceptive sense, our physical sense of our body boundaries.

46. Friendlystreet Leasing Module
    Friendlystreet enhances processes for design,planning and development of large mixeduse commercial projects including Town Centers, Malls, Urban and Downtown Redevelopment and Brownfields using a 3D Virtual Urban Environment simulation.  
    http://www.friendlystreetllc.com/

47. Index.BAK
    A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.  
    http://www.foothill.net/~jerryi/
    
    Extractions: -depending on the commentator. I do not think this is so. The mind exists, the brain exists, but the mind can never be more than the brain. Therefore "the mind is [exactly equals]the brain" -so say Patricia and Paul Churchland. Consciousness "emerges" from a physical substrate, (though they never say how that could possibly be). The mind plays tricks however: it invents phenomena. The "color phi" and a "Cartesian theater", (i.e. mental events), are scientifically and even logically impossible says Daniel Dennett. The "mind", (in our normal meaning), he concludes therefore, must be eliminated . It is a "figment" of the imagination -i.e. it is an illusion. And then there are those who say the problem is innately unsolvable -it is

48. Virtual Reality At The NHM
    Download virtual reality fossils If you have an offline VRML browser,you can download the data from here. Pictures of virtual reality  
    http://www.nhm.ac.uk/interactive/vrml/
    
    Extractions: In 1997 The Natural History Museum was a partner in an exciting virtual reality project. The Museum's part in the project was to develop ' The virtual Endeavour experiment ', an exhibition in virtual reality. One of the technologies used in the production of the virtual exhibition allowed real objects to be converted into three-dimensional datasets. A digital camera recorded the path of a narrow laser beam as it scans an object. This data is used to create the 3 D model, which can then be manuipulated on a computer screen as if it were a real object. As a demonstration of this technology, the Museum had a number of fossil specimens scanned. You can download the datasets for these fossils, and view them using virtual reality software. The fossil datasets are in Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML). You will need a special plug-in to view this format. Fortunately this software can be downloaded from various Internet sites. If you don't have any virtual reality software, you should be able to find some in this list .

49. Coding From Scratch: A Conversation With Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier, P
    Coding from Scratch A Conversation with virtual reality Pioneer JaronLanier, Part One by Janice J. Heiss January 23, 2003 Jaron Lanier.  
    http://java.sun.com/features/2003/01/lanier_qa1.html
    
    Extractions: Jaron Lanier Jaron Lanier is well known for his work on "virtual reality," a term he coined in the 1980s. Renowned as a composer, musician, and artist, he has taught at many university computer science departments around the country, including Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Penn. He recently served as the lead scientist for the National Tele-Immersion Initiative, which is devoted, among other things, to using computers to enable people in different cities to experience the illusion that they are physically together. Currently, he is working on something he calls phenotropic computing, in which the current model of software as "protocol adherence" is replaced by "pattern recognition" as a way of connecting components of software systems. In this first of a two-part interview, we met with him to talk about his vision of the fundamental changes that are needed in software development. "I think the whole way we write and think about software is wrong. If you look at how things work right now, it's strange nobody and I mean

50. Elohim
    Discussing life in a dynamic hologram with virtual reality.  
    http://www.geocities.com/youcreatedcosmos/elohim.html

51. Free Virtual Galaxy Project
    By Jim Smith's. Purpose is to provide a zero cost, interactive 3D virtual reality system.  
    http://www.ccm.net/~jrsmith/
    
    Extractions: View Guestbook TazZone Voting Link Click here to vote! The purpose of the Free Virtual Galaxy Project (FVG) is to provide a zero cost, interactive 3D virtual reality system which allows users to "fly" to and around nearby stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Objects represented in the system are plotted in the positions they occupy in 3-space according to the best information available. I don't claim now (and never will) that the program or the data behind it is without flaw, but I do plan to make program improvements as time permits and will post the current version number so that return visitors may download the latest and greatest if they so desire. The links at the left will take you to pages on this site which provide background information on astronomy as it relates to the project; other links offer support information describing how to use the program. It's a good idea to review the Program Docs and/or print them out prior to running the program.

52. IEEE Virtual Reality 2000
    IEEE virtual reality 2000. 18 22 March 2000, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.Category Computers virtual reality Conferences  
    http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/vr2000/

53. Biosport Lab -- Bobsled Simulator
    Built by the Sports Biomechanics Lab at University of California, Davis.  
    http://mae.engr.ucdavis.edu/~biosport/bobsleds/bobsled.html
    
    Extractions: Version 1 Bobsled Simulator That thing in the picture is a bobsled simulator. It's kind of like a flight simulator, but simulates driving a bobsled instead of flying a plane. An IBM workstation runs code which calculates the dynamics of the sled in real time. We feed the program track data (Lillehammer, Salt Lake City, Albertville, Calgary) and driver steering input, and it solves the equations of motion and draws a picture on the screen from the driver's point of view. Data is also sent from the workstation to a motion control system which plays a CD of the sounds of a bobsled going down a real run, rolls the cockpit, and provides force feedback to the driver through the steering handles. The idea behind this project is to help train the United States Olympic Bobsled Team. With the simulator the drivers can take as many practice runs in a day as they like (as opposed to 4 or 5 runs maximum when training on ice), work on only one section of a track at a time, practice many different tracks without having to travel, compare their "lines" to other drivers, and get quantitative feedback on how they are doing after each run. There are three versions of the bobsled simulator currently in operation: one in Lake Placid, NY at the

54. Virtual Reality Toolbox
    An open and interactive VR solution for MATLAB and Simulink.  
    http://www.humusoft.com/vr/

55. Multimedia - From Wagner To Virtual Reality
    http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/contents.html

56. Free Virtual Galaxy Project
    freeware DOS Interactive 3D virtual reality Solar System which allows users to fly to and around nearby stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.  
    http://www.ccm.net/~jrsmith/index.html
    
    Extractions: View Guestbook TazZone Voting Link Click here to vote! The purpose of the Free Virtual Galaxy Project (FVG) is to provide a zero cost, interactive 3D virtual reality system which allows users to "fly" to and around nearby stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Objects represented in the system are plotted in the positions they occupy in 3-space according to the best information available. I don't claim now (and never will) that the program or the data behind it is without flaw, but I do plan to make program improvements as time permits and will post the current version number so that return visitors may download the latest and greatest if they so desire. The links at the left will take you to pages on this site which provide background information on astronomy as it relates to the project; other links offer support information describing how to use the program. It's a good idea to review the Program Docs and/or print them out prior to running the program.

57. Multimedia – From Wagner To Virtual Reality
    click to skip introduction.  
    http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/

58. GreenFace The Virtual Reality
    Mix between Pac Man, BomberMan, and BoulderDash.  
    http://www.amicgames.com/greenface.html

59. About 3D Graphics/VR : Information About Virtual Reality And 3D On The Web
    About 3D Graphics/VR Information about virtual reality 3D graphics web 3D gamestutorials vrml 3D graphics and Web3D Technologies. 3D Graphics/virtual reality.  
    http://3dgraphics.about.com/

60. Wired News: X-Files Creator Goes Virtual
    Chris Carter has another TV series in the pocket, and this time it's about virtual reality. Will it be cooler than TRON? By Joyce Slaton. Wired News  
    http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,19901,00.html
    
    Extractions: 03:00 AM May. 27, 1999 PT With Millennium getting the ax come fall and Scully and Mulder stuck in summer reruns, Chris Carter has had enough space on his calendar to create a new series: the VR-themed Harsh Realm. Shell-shocked Sarajevo vet Lieutenant Thomas Hobbes ( Party of Five But not so fast, Army Boy: In this sci-fi vehicle the military has evil designs on Hobbes, forcing him to test a top-secret military training simulation, known as Harsh Realm, and beat the highest-scoring player. Once Hobbes enters the game he's fighting for his life and for ratings, of course. The buzz Carter carries with him to every project has already spawned a few Web sites Fans of the comic series may be disappointed to learn that the show has a different central character and a different focus, with more attention paid to military conspiracy theories and photo-friendly violence than exploring the limits of virtual reality.

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