Virtual Reality as a Tool for Humanities Research

WaxWeb

• Film as hypertext
• VRML navigational interface

The Pompeii Forum Project (VRML and argumentation)

• The Imperial Cult Building as it exists today
• The Imperial Cult Building as reconstructed by Mau
• The Imperial Cult Building as reconstructed by Dobbins

The Rossetti Project (scale and standards)

• Rossetti's Studio (view 1)
• Rossetti's Studio (view 2)

The Valley of the Shadow (non-representational VRML)

• Chambersburg Map

Other Applications

• The Blake Archive
• VRML + SGML Document Type Definition for the description of architectural and archaeological sites.
• Jefferson's Architecture
• Dante's Inferno

The Future of the Web

• Points of View
• Look-Ahead Web Navigation
• 3D web pages
• Lucid Mapping:
• "...a sentient and directed narrative presence, assembled "on-the-fly" in response to changing visual and spatial conditions within a graphical environment: a mapping which then in turn alters the topography of the environment itself, and so on, thus sustaining the classic cybernetic feedback loop." --Matt Kirschenbaum