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3D using the beamer in teleporting to a ball.

Movies of ScienceSpace's immersive worlds

To help you envision the ScienceSpace worlds, we have created a few downloadable QuickTime movies. They will give a brief glimpse of how students interact with ScienceSpace's worlds.

You will need to a copy of Apple's Quicktime Movie Player or Quicktime VR Player to view these movies.

Navigate movie: This movie shows a student navigating through one of ScienceSpace's worlds.

MaxwellWorld movie: This movie shows a student exploring an electric field in MaxwellWorld.

Interactive MaxwellWorld movie: This QuickTime VR movie offers an interactive 360 view of MaxwellWorld and its representations. The field space is viewed from the point of origin of the axes.

PaulingWorld movie: This movie shows a student working with a protein molecule in PaulingWorld.

Movies of ScienceSpace's interface

To show you the physical interface for the ScienceSpace worlds, we have created a few downloadable QuickTime VR movies. These movies will let you examine some of our key VR equipment and our VR lab.

You will need to a copy of Apple's Quicktime VR Player to view these movies.

Headset Movie: This movie displays the Virtual Reality, Inc. VR4 headmounted binocular display. The headmounted display visually immerses users in ScienceSpace's virtual worlds.

3-Ball Movie: This movie displays the Polhemus 3Ball. Similar to a 3-D mouse, it enables users to interact with menus and objects in ScienceSpace's virtual worlds.

VR Lab Movie: This movie shows the GMU Virtual Reality Lab and a VR session in progress. Dr. Chris Dede is showing students MaxwellWorld as it is projected on a large screen. One student, who wears a headmounted display, is immersed in MaxwellWorld and is navigating using a hand-held menu and 3Ball. Onlookers are viewing a projected image of MaxwellWorld on the wall.

Send comments or requests for more information to vrinfo@gmu.edu