A technology that enables Internet video broadcasting and desktop video conferencing on the Internet and over regular telephone lines and private networks. VDOPhone which provides the abilty to have private point to point audio/video contact is currently only available for Windows95 and requires a Pentium proccessor. The VDOLive player however is available for Windows and Power Macs and provides the abilty as a Netscape plugin for viewing and hearing LIVE Internet Broadcasts.
A database for searching for information within gopher space using keywords and subjects. You can catch veronica at gopher://veronica.scs.unr.edu.
Conducting a conference between two or more participants at different sites by using computer networks or the Internet to transmit audio and video data. For example, a point-to-point (two-person) video conferencing system works much like a video telephone. Each participant has a video camera, microphone, and speakers mounted on his or her computer. As the two participants speak to one another, their voices are carried over the network and delivered to the other's speakers, and whatever images appear in front of the video camera appear in a window on the other participant's monitor.
Multipoint videoconferencing allows three or more participants to sit in a virtual conference room and communicate as if they were sitting right next to each other. Software programs such as CUSeeMe have brought video conferencing to the Internet and are easily available and easy to use. SEE ALSO: desktop video.
Visual Interface - A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. Became the de facto standard UNIX editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of EMACS after about 1984. Tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 USENET poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of EMACS).
Simulation of the real thing. Means the same as "almost". You will see this term appear before various computer terms to indicate simulation technology that enables you to cross boundaries and experience something without needing it's physical presence, as in virtual sex, and virtual theme parks.
A reliable link between a user and an Internet site, even though the two are not communicating over a dedicated phone line.
Virtual Reality Modeling Language - VRML is an open, extensible, industry-standard scene description language for 3-D scenes, or worlds, on the Internet. With VRML and certain software tools, you can create and view distributed, interactive 3-D worlds that are rich with text, images, animation, sound, music, and even video. VRML 1.0 supports worlds with relatively simple animations while VRML 2.0 (still in development) supports complex 3-D animations, simulations, and behaviors by allowing Java and JavaScript programmers to write scripts that act upon VRML objects.
It is usually pronounced "V R M L", but its friends pronounce it "vermel." The goal of VRML is to create the infrastructure and conventions of cyberspace, a multi user space of many virtual worlds on the Net.
VRweb is a browser for 3D worlds and objects modeled in the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). VRweb is the only VRML browser which is freely available in complete source code (under the GNU General Public License), does not require commercial packages such as Inventor or Motif, and which is capable of running on virtually all platforms.
