Cheers
Chris Hall
NeTpower
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From: brutzman
To: www-vrml; rem-conf
Subject: VRML BOF meeting at Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
Date: Friday, April 07, 1995 2:55PM
This message pertains to the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)
and MBone (Multicast Backbone - remote conferencing) communities.
We will have a VRML Birds of a Feather meeting at the SIGGRAPH 1995
Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics meeting in Monterey next week.
Time: Monday 10 April 95, 9:30 pm
Location: Demo room, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Monterey CA
Several VRML list members have said they may be able to bring software
to view VRML, but we shall see what actually is there. We will have
most types of machine architectures available and networked for your
use. Please feel free to post plans/problems/possibilities to the
list in reply to this message so we can adequately react to the many
late-breaking developments prior to Monday night.
More info about the I3DG symposium is at
ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/SYMPOSIUM_MOSAIC/symposium_mosaic.html
The entire conference will be multicast on the MBone, including the VRML
session. For more info on MBone, see the second excerpt which follows.
We will be putting out the full conference on a single channel in
cooperation with the International WWW Conference in Germany.
all the best, Don
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Where is the frontier today in real-time, interactive 3D graphics ?
The purpose of the symposium is to look at what research groups are
doing with their high-performance, real-time, interactive graphics
systems, to find out what special purpose graphics engines and
input/output devices are on the drawing board, to discuss which are
the
most user-friendly paradigms for interaction with such systems and to
learn what applications are still waiting for an appropriate 3D
interactive system.
The symposium will consist of technical sessions in which formal
papers are presented and discussed, and of hands-on demonstrations
where research groups and vendors of equipment demonstrate the
state-of-the-art in this field.
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"MBone Provides Audio and Video Across the Internet"
Michael R. Macedonia and Donald P. Brutzman
_IEEE COMPUTER_, vol. 27 no. 4, pp. 30-36, April 1994.
PostScript, text, and hypertext versions of this article are available as
ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/i3la/mbone.ps
ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/i3la/mbone.txt
ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/i3la/mbone.html
IP address of taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil is 131.120.1.13
We wrote this article for two reasons. The first was to clarify
terminology and technical questions about how the MBone works.
The second was to help people get their sites connected and use
the tools more effectively. Hopefully the article is of value
in these respects to you.
Mike and I again wish to thank the originators of the MBone tools and
the dozens of MBone users who provided essential contributions
to this article.
Pointers to additional resources can be found at
ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/mosaic/mbone.html
http://www.eit.com/techinfo/mbone/
--
Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code OR/Br work 408.656.2149
Monterey California 93943-5000 USA fax 408.656.2595
AUV Underwater Virtual World ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/auv/auv.html