language: en

[To appear in Proceedings of Virtual Reality Vienna '93]

Constructing Cyberspace: Virtual Reality and Hypermedia

Keith Andrews
Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) Graz University of Technology,
A-8010 Graz, Austria.

Abstract Large-scale, distributed hypermedia information systems allow fast, structured access to very large, dynamic information bases. The highly perceptual nature of a virtual reality interface has the power to take users both inside information and inside its structure. Combining the two takes us a step towards cyberspace, William Gibson's vision of a virtual model of all the world's interconnected data. This paper reviews current work on the boundary of virtual reality and hypermedia.

1 Introduction