VRweb 1.5

Interactive 3D Virtual Reality Scene Viewer

Authors
Keith Andrews (kandrews@iicm.edu): VRweb project leader
Michael Pichler (mpichler@iicm.edu): VRweb lead programmer
Contributed by
Meredith Whyles (mwhyles@merlyn.net)
For more information, visit http://www.merlyn.net/.
SCO "Skunkmom" Sponsor
Ron Record (rr@ronrecord.com)
Obtained from
ftp://ftp.iicm.edu/pub/VRweb
Restrictions
Refer to the COPYRIGHT and LICENCE files.
Description
VRweb is a freely available browser for 3D worlds and scenes modeled in VRML (the Virtual Reality Modeling Language). It was developed by the Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) of Graz University of Technology, Austria. For information about the IICM, visit http://www.iicm.edu/. VRweb is the only free VRML browser available in full source code which does not require commercial packages such as Inventor or Motif and which will run on (almost) any Unix or Windows platform.
Productivity
This program displays VRML 1.0 files for the user to manipulate. When used with a web browser, such as Netscape or Mosaic, this 3D viewer allows access to the increasing number of web sites offering virtual reality content and to the advanced HyperWave servers (formerly known as "Hyper-G"). HyperWave servers represent the next generation web solution for publishing rich hypermedia documents in the Internet's World Wide Web and internal TCP/IP networks. For more information about HyperWave, visit http://www.hyperwave.de.
Work Planned
None
Documentation
To view the VRweb User Guide, visit http://www.iicm.edu/vrweb/help.
Verification
Run "vrweb-mesa filename &", where filename is any VRML 1.0 file. If VRwave (the Java successor to VRweb) is available, it will be invoked to view VRML 2.0 files. Both VRML 1.0 and VRML 2.0 files have a file suffix of ".wrl". VRwave can be obtained from SCO Skunkware. For more information on VRwave, visit http://www.iicm.edu/vrwave.


How to get the source

Visit http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/src/x11/viewers or ftp://ftp.sco.com/skunkware/src/x11/viewers to obtain a copy of the source in gzip format. To create the executable from the source code (on SCO OpenServer 5.0.4), follow these steps: