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Cybertown pizza7/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Several university departments, especially those that studied new media, experimented with VRML and posted their creations online. So the question remains: Did VRML ever see widespread use? Not really, but relative to the size of the internet at the time, VRML’s reach was wider than you might expect. As these concepts coalesced, Pesce and Parisi created the first VRML browser in November of that year. He positioned this new 3D browsing technology as the VR equivalent of HTML, which was the primary markup language used to create pages on the World Wide Web at the time. In that paper, Raggett coined the term “VRML” (for Virtual Reality Modeling Language). Not long after, another engineer named Dave Raggett presented a paper that proposed “Extending WWW to support Platform Independent Virtual Reality.” In May of 1994, Pesce, Parisi, and Peter Kennard gave a presentation about Labyrinth at the First World Wide Web Conference in Geneva. ![]() In this atmosphere of VR buzz-in late 1993-software engineers Mark Pesce and Anthony Parisi created the rudiments of a 3D web browser called Labyrinth. Without much delay or hesitation, computer engineers who read these books set out to turn these dystopian cyberpunk visions into reality. It crystallized ideas about the alternate realities in worldwide computer networks that originated from various sources, including William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984), another influential cyberpunk novel. In 1992, Neil Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in his sci-fi novel Snow Crash. ![]()
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