| authors |
Damer, B. |
| year |
1996 |
| title |
Inhabited Virtual Worlds: A New Frontier for Interaction Design |
| source |
Interactions, Vol.3, No.5 ACM |
| summary |
In April of 1995 the Internet took a step into the third dimension with the introduction of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) as a commercial standard. Another event that month caused fewer headlines but in retrospect was just as significant. A small company from San Francisco, Worlds Incorporated, launched WorldsChat, a three dimensional environment allowing any Internet user to don a digital costume, or avatar, and travel about and converse with other people inhabiting the space. WorldsChat was appropriately modeled on a space station complete with a central hub, hallways, sliding doors, windows, and escalators to outlying pods. |
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journal paper |
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