Whoola Cyberspace

Description

Whoola Cyberspace is a virtual reality web browser. You can enter a URL to download an animated 3D scene file from a webserver. Keyboard navigations permits you to fly through the scene. Fly-through hyperlinks allow you to jump from scene to scene.

Installation

To launch, click on the Java applet above or here: cyber.jnlp. If the program does not run, please ensure that you have a recent version of Java installed on your computer.

Keyboard Controls

left left right right up forward down backward	ctrl-left yaw left ctrl-right yaw right ctrl-up pitch forward ctrl-down pitch back	alt-left roll left alt-right roll right alt-up up alt-down down
shift fast home jump to next preset viewpoint f1 load a new scene f2 toggle ambient light f3 wire frame conversion f4 toggle frame rate display

Hyperlinks

Hyperlinks are embedded within the examples. When you fly through an object, a hyperlink is triggered and a new scene is downloaded from the website.

Network Updates

Whoola Cyberspace is capable of updating the positions of objects in the scene based on network update messages. You can see a demonstration of this in Whoola Luna, a 3D scene that instructs Whoola Cyberspace to enable peer-to-peer avatar mode. To see how this works, bring up two instances of Whoola Luna and then move around until you can see your other avatar. To launch, click here: luna.jnlp

Documentation

Content Developers can configure Cyberspace as a virtual reality browser for animated 3D scenes with embedded hyperlinks or as a 3D user interface for multiplayer online games. For configuration and deployment options, please see the documentation.