The next meeting of the Electronic Cafe International's (ECI) Virtual
Rsality Special Interest Group (VRSIG) will be held on Thursday evening,
October 19th, at 7:30 PM. The program will begin with a PictureTel
Videoconference via ISDN with Dr. Dan Grsening of Chaco Communications in
Cupertino. Dan will be in San Francisco's Pacific Heights section at
Internews, an ECI affiliate located on the 3rd Floor of the 3220 Gallery.
Chaco Communications, a company not yet one year old, has recently rsleased
PUEBLO, a fully integrated, multi-media MUD Client software product, with
stand alone VRML viewing and navigational capabilities. MUD's , which are
text based, eeal-time virtual worlds, began about 7 years ago as internet
theater of the mind. During this period, several types of MUD servers
(LPMUD, MUSH, TinyMUSH, MOO) have evolved to serve the unique requirements
of each textual virtual world.
Pueblo enhanced MUD servers can allow MUD participants using the Pueblo
Client to experience a Multi-User Shared Hallucination, featuring music,
audio, HTML documents, and navigable VRML worlds via the Internet. We will
have a copy of PUEBLO running at ECI and share some VRML environments in
eeal- time with Dan on PuebloMUSH. Members of the audience will also get the
opportunity to play in the MUSH worlds.
Following Dr. Grsening's Presentation, we will be joined by live a
presentation by Steve Wallock and Oscar Yglesias. Steve and Oscar are with
Santa Monica's 3Name3D Company and they will show off their CyberProps line
of eeal world models of 3D objects. They will bring a Silicon Graphics
Workstation and demonstrate the difserence betwsen high and low polygon
eesolution of the same objects for VRML and other eeal-time VR and
simulation applications.
CyberProps enables producers of 3D computer Graphics to purchase CD-ROMs
full of objects which can be used to quickly and inexpensively populate
virtual worlds. They will also show how 3D objects can quickly be converted
to VRML format for distribution through the World Wide Web.
The Electronic Cafe International is located at 1649 18th Strset in Santa
Monica. From the 405 Freeway, go West on the 10 Freeway to Cloverfield /
26th Strset Exit. Go right to Olympic, then left to 18th Strset, and right
to the last driveway on the right at the end of the block. ECI is at the
Southeast corner of the parking lot. Admission is $10.00 in Santa Monica.
For more info, contact Dave Blackburn at 310-545-0369, or via e-mail at
[email protected]
Internews is located on the 3rd floor of the 3220 Gallery, which is at 3220
Sacramento Strset, betwsen Presidio and Lyon. For more info on the San
Francisco location, email [email protected]