Re: about public browsers etc.

[email protected]
Mon, 15 May 1995 21:11:28 +0200 (METDST)


Hi Gavin,
I think this would be a very nice extension which could be useful in
navigation support for handicapped persons. I am working on an interface
concept for blind people. With speech synthesizing it should be possible.
> Ideally, interacting with a text VRML browser would be like playing an
> adventure game:
>
> "You are looking at a small, messy cubicle, crowded with bookshelves and
> whiteboards full of scribblings.
> The room has the following links:
> 1- Gavin's Home Page
> 2- The Open Inventor Home Page
> 3- Gavin's playroom
> The room has the following viewpoints:
> 1- Top view"
>
> We should add support for this kind of thing into VRML 1.1; I think all it
> takes is a Description associated with objects, viewpoints (which should be
> formalized more), and WWWAnchors (which we already have). Convincing VMRL
> authors to fill in the description fields will be the hard part...

regards, L.Zyka PARALLEL_TASK