MaPS: Movement and Planning Support for Navigation in an Immersive VRML Browser

This paper describes the design and implementation of the user interface for a prototype immersive VRML2 browser, with particular reference to the planning and viewpoint movement aspects of navigation in the virtual environment. Rather than being hard-coded in the browser, the user interface objects are part of the virtual environment itself (i.e. stored in the VRML scene graph). Advantages of this “first-class user interface” are described, and implications for an open, extensible approach to user interface evolution and browser implementation are considered. KEYWORDS VRML2; immersive browser; first-class user interface; navigation techniques; user interface metaphors.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: VRML
• Authors: John D. M. Edwards, Chris Hand
• Keywords: First-class User Interface, Immersive Vrml2 Browser, Internet Technology, User Interface, VRML 1997