Technical Information

Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)

If you have any questions about Community Place, you may check our FAQ document. Note, however, that much of the information in the FAQ may now be out of date.

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Moving Worlds VRML 2.0

Moving Worlds

• Moving Worlds
  This VRML 2.0 specification document defines the official and complete standard for the Virtual Reality Modeling Language.

Community Place version2.0

• Community Place 30 Sept. '96
  Functional Mapping for the latest Moving Worlds Specification.

• Community Place Special Effects Developer Tutorials 6 Sept. '96

• Restrictions of the Community Place version2 beta 31 May. '96

• Debug Console

  The System.out.println() method can be used to display debug messages while programming JAVA for VRML 2.0 with Community Place.

  Execute the program vscp.exe as follows:

   > vscp.exe -d
  

  Java

• Moving Worlds Java API Sony's proposal 26 Apr. '96

• How to compile Java 4 Jun. '96
  How to compile Java that Community Place version2 supports.

• Java: changes from CP alpha1 version to beta1 version 6 Jun. '96

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Relevant Research at Sony Computer Science Lab.

The Computer Science Lab. is investigating a number of areas related to interactive services, both in the internet and in broadband networks. They have ongoing work in a number of areas including networking infrastructure, interface design and co-operative working. For those interested in the technical details click here.

The following documents from the Computer Science Lab. are directly related to the VRML work.

VRML related Documents

• Extension to VRML 1.0 (v 1.2)

• An O-O perspective on VRML

• 'Technical issues in the design of a scaleble shared virtual world.

Related sites

• A comprehensive list of other sites that contain information on related work.