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Any concept like this is a target for controversial definitions:
Here we give:
- our own version
- pointers to cyberspace Indexes on the Web
- pointers to some general literature.
- pointers to a few recent events
- Cyberspace space is the set of multi-user virtual environments in
which users can be, navigate and talk, and collaboratively
create, own and manipulate objects.
- ``Cyberspace is an interconnected computer-mediated environment in which all prior media are represented'' ([Hughes, 1995, p.38,]).
Cyberspace is not: The World Wide Web or any other passive media.
Cyberspace (or cyberspaces) of the future will be ``a globally networked computer-sustained real-time interactive environment in rendered three-dimensional form in which users can collaborate and view and manipulate information'' ([Hughes, 1995, p.35,]).
- Kevin Hughes' ``From Webspace to Cyberspace'' [Hughes, 1995] is
probably the best overal reading available on-line. (Version 1.1 is available from Tecfa (locally) in PDF format)
- You can also search Daniel's Online Bibliography Database
with keywords like VEs, VR, MUD, Cyberspace.
- VRML Guru Mark 's ``VRML, Browsing and Building Cyberspace'' ([Pesce, 1995]) is nice reading for grasping VRML essentials but also includes good
conceptual thoughts on cyberspace and cyberspace building.
- Other recommended books about cyberspace are:
``Cyberspace: First Steps'' ([Benedikt, 1991]),
``The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic
Frontier'' [Rheingold, 1993],
``Computers as Theatre'' [Laurel, 1995],
There have been recent other interesting workshops and conferences in the past (though real documentation might be hard to get)
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Daniel K. Schneider
Wed Apr 24 02:00:59 MET DST 1996