Web resources

From EuroVR Knowledge Base

Portals, collections of links

Address Description
http://vresources.jump-gate.com/ Website providing latest information about virtual reality and related technologies
http://www.ccon.org/ Contact, Culture and Community in Virtual World CyberSpace
http://vresources.jump-gate.com/ Website providing latest information about virtual reality and related technologies
http://www.ccon.org/ Contact, Culture and Community in Virtual World CyberSpace
http://www.vrefresh.com/ Independently promoting the successful commercial adoption of Virtual Reality (VR) and interactive three-dimensional (i3D) applications since 1998
http://www.insead.fr/CALT/Encyclopedia/ComputerSciences/VR/ Info about VR from INSEAD school
http://vr.isdale.com/index.html Jerry Isdale’s VR page – virtual library, many inactive links
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/onthenet.html Resources in Virtual Reality
http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/ID797.html History of computer graphics and animation
http://www.se.rit.edu/~jrv/research/ar/ Augmented Reality sites – virtual library, some inactive links
http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/ovrt/hotvr.html Hot Virtual Reality Sites – virtual library, some inactive links
http://vrmlworks.crispen.org/ VRML resources
http://www.virtualworldlets.net/ Virtual Worldlets Network: Virtual Reality Development
http://planetjeff.net/ Build Your Own PC-based Cave. On this web site, you will find detailed instructions on how to build a low-cost CAVE-like VR environment. It also includes description of a few display software based on the unreal engine. An interesting site for VR home-hobbyists.
http://philliphansel.com/ Insight and information to individuals wishing to know more about the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
http://www.webdeveloper.com/vrml/ VRML answers, tips & tricks
http://www.vr.org.au Virtual Reality Association
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/project/ar/ref.html Augmented Reality & Computer Augmented Environments
http://www.geocities.com/mellott124/ Information on Virtual Reality, Data gloves, HMD's, and various other projects
http://www.urbansimulation.com/index.php Community and portal for VR urban simulations, geo simulation, GIS, and 3D visualization industry
http://www.virlink.com/ Virlink is a site focusing on access to distributed Virtual Reality (VR) applications through the Internet
http://www.86vr.com/ Chinese big Web3D and VR website
http://www.stereo3d.com/applications.htm Stereoscopic 3D Applications
http://www.sics.se/isl/iar/survey.html Augmented Reality Survey
http://www.augmented-reality.org/ Augmented Reality Homepage – a portal to the world wide web of AR
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/projects/ar/ref.html Sony Computer Science Labs – Augmented Reality & Computer Augmented Environments
http://hci.rsc.rockwell.com/AugmentedReality/research.php Links to research groups dedicated to Augmented Reality
http://visualisatie.pagina.nl/ 3D visualization portal, in Dutch
http://www.alpha-dynamics.com/vrtaxi/ VR Taxi portal
http://www.compinfo-center.com/cad/virtual_reality.htm CompInfo directory: virtual reality – knowledge basis
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Virtual_Reality/ Virtual Reality in open directory project
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Virtual_Reality/Companies/ Virtual Reality companies in open directory project
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Virtual_Reality/Software/ Virtual Reality software in open directory project
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Virtual_Reality/Hardware/ Virtual Reality hardware in open directory project
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/virgin/cat/ The Vi.R:G.In Catalogue is a comprehensive catalogue of projects and products from all over the world that combine Virtual Reality and Geographical Information System
http://www.opengis.org/ Open GIS Consortium (OGC) - non-profit global association aiming to promote the development and use of GIS standards and techniques.


Magazines, news, collections of articles

Address Description
http://www.vrmlsite.com/ VRML magazine
http://www.e3dnews.com/ Monthly and weekly articles about virtual reality, games, and the business applications of 3D on the Web
http://www.vrsource.org/ News, information, resources, and discussions on all topics related to virtual reality technology and its uses
http://www.cybertherapy.info/ The Virtual Reality and Ambient Intelligence Reference Site for Medicine, Psychology and Neuroscience – many useful articles, links etc. – virtual library

Standards

Address Description
http://www.web3d.org/ Open standards for real-time 3D communication
http://www.geovrml.org/ GeoVRML standard
http://www.multigen.com/products/standards/openflight/index.shtml MultiGen-Paradigm OpenFlight standard
http://www.multigen.com/products/standards/metaflight/index.shtml MultiGen-Paradigm MetaFlight standard