Virtual Reality Association meeting Tuesday night

[miriam_e]

We will discuss anything and everything, but the special topic will be "Writing fiction for virtual worlds".

VR fiction has a lot of special advantages and imposes some strange requirements upon writers. I think it will make film obsolete. For some background info check out:
http://werple.net.au/~miriam/VR-fiction2.html
http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/projects.html
http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/virtualstorytelling/
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/arts/design/03MATT.html

We will meet at the Gallery world at http://vrmlworld.net
7pm Australian Eastern Daylight Saving time
(Remember if you live in a place that treats time with some sanity and doesn't impose daylight saving weirdness on its citizens then the meeting will be one hour earlier than you would expect.)

You will need a VRML viewer installed in Internet Explorer in order to visit the virtual worlds. Either blaxxun's Contact or Parallelgraphics' Cortona work fine -- they are both free.
http://www.blaxxun.com/services/support/download/install.shtml
or
http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/downloads

It should be very stable once you get there, however some people can have problems the very first time. If you have difficulties then look at Phillip Hansel's page on how to configure it properly.
http://philliphansel.com/vnet/virtual_machine.htm
and
http://philliphansel.com/vnet/classpath.htm

Comments

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Wow! Just had a peek at your pages. Gotta add you to my friends list. Going to a friend's for a couple of days. I wanna chat more when I return.
Very glad to have met you.