Community Place VRML2.0 Browser 2.0 Preview Release D1b

Our goal is the creation of a Virtual Society, an online, electronic,
three dimensional CyberSpace. CyberSpace will be full of interesting
places to visit, fun things to do and most importantly, other people
to meet.

The Community Place Browser is the window into this online world. It
allows you to enter 3D worlds, to navigate around them, to interact
with objects in these scenes and to meet and chat with other users.

To allow this, the Community Place browser is a full VRML2.0 browser
with Java language support that allows you and other to build and
experience interactive, multi-media 3D worlds.

However, Community Place is more than a standalone VRML2.0 browser,
it's part of a sophisticated multi-user shared 3D CyberSpace. Each
browser, when connected to a multi-user server, the Community Place
Bureau, will allow you to choose your 3D representation in that world,
your avatar, and will use that avatar to represent you in the shared
worlds.

Once connected to the Community Place Bureau you enter the shared
world.  Within it, you can see other people, wave to them, chat in
groups, or even have private conversations. The browser and server
support it all.

In this software package you will find all you need to allow you to
enter this world. The Community Place browser works fine as a
standalone VRML2.0 browser and we've provided some demo files for you
to load and enjoy. We've also provided a shared VRML world, Circus
Park, that automatically connects to a public server when loaded. 

In addition, if the idea of building your own shared VRML world sounds
fun, we provided a small server that runs of Win95 to enable you
to do that.  The server instructions tell how to install and run the
server and how to make the small modifications needed to take a
standard VRML2.0 file, and turn it into a shared 3D world.



			       Enjoy !!

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