Interactive Visualisation and Virtual Environments on the Internet

摘要

We are on the threshold of a step-change in Internet services, with implications perhaps greater than those arising from the introduction of the WWW graphical interface. Current developments, such as VRML and Java, promise a future of interactive, multiparticipant, multimedia environments and applications. This article outlines the background to these developments and describes early demonstrators which provide a glimpse of future services.