A Wide Web of Worlds
Scientific American, October 2001
TerraVision is presented as a program that can handle
large-scale 3D terrains over the web. "TerraVision, developed by SRI
International in Menlo Park, Calif., can integrate digital topographic
databases, satellite and aerial photographs, and 3-D models of
buildings. The TerraVision server software sends the composite images
over the Internet to a 3-D browser program (offered free at
www.tvgeo.com)."
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High-tech Originators Unveil New Creations
Cable News Network, CNNDotCom, June 16, 2001
TerraVision and GeoWeb were shown on CNN during a section on SRI's
55th Anniversary event. You can see flythrough's on a large projection
screen system, as well as a TerraVision flythrough of the SRI campus
on a laptop. From the article below, click "Play video" to see the
clip.
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Download 3-D TerraVision Movies
TechTV Cable TV Channel, June 8, 2001
Get your head spinning by viewing these incredible 3D
movies of SRI's TerraVision terrrain rendering system
in action. [...] SRI's TerraVision renders
3D landscapes based on actual terrain, and
lets you move about these landscapes in real
time. It can handle terrain datasets that
measure in the terabytes and can utilize
distributed computing (browsing through
terrain datasets on multiple servers on the
Web.)
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New Rules for Net Searches: Location,
Location, Location
New York Times, April 5, 2001
SRI International, a nonprofit company in Menlo Park,
Calif., [] is looking to reorganize some Web sites
according to geography. The company (which has wholly
owned commercial subsidiaries and would charge a fee for
.geo registrations) has devised a new top-level domain,
called .geo, and a corresponding system for classifying
sites based on information having to do with
neighborhoods, businesses and travel destinations.
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Innovation: Where in the World?
Technology Review, Jan/Feb 2001
What if [...] there was a consistent way for all
Internet-navigation tools to keep track of businesses' and
organizations' real-world locations, as well as their Internet
addresses? That's just what a new Internet architecture
proposed by
Menlo Park, Calif.'s SRI International aims to do.
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Agency to Vote on Web Domain Names
New York Times, November 16, 2000
The only domain hailed by the advising team as "interesting and
innovative" was .geo, proposed by Stanford Research International.
The domain would give companies domain names based on their
geographic location.
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TerraVision demoed at SIGGRAPH 2000 Web3D Roundup
Web3D Roundup, July 26 2000
The TerraVision system was demonstrated at the SIGGRAPH
2000 Web3D Roundup event to an audience of around
2,500. We demonstrated the ActiveX component version
of TerraVision embedded within a PowerPoint
presentation and showed the system
flying down from the outer space
to 15 cm resolution aerial imagery with embedded
GeoVRML building models.
Web3D
RoundUp Web Page
Photos
of the event from About.com
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SRI
International Introduces GeoVRML
SRI International Press Release, June
5 2000
Silicon Valley-based SRI International, a leading independent technology
innovator, today announced GeoVRML 1.0, a new standard in web-based
three-dimensional viewing technology. GeoVRML 1.0 is an extension
of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) that allows for
accurate rendering of geographic data, giving Internet users the
ability to integrate all forms of 3-D content into real world scenes.
GeoVRML 1.0 gives users an unprecedented perspective on the physical
world in which they live.
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Business
at Warp Speed
PC Computing, December 1999
"Some of the best applications are still under wraps, but a few
NGI projects are already available: real-time VRML (virtual-reality
markup language) terrain mapper TerravisionTM II makes
Quake III look like Pac-Man."
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Internet
2 holds promise of technological leap
CNN, February 24 1999
TerraVisionTM was one of five applications used to demonstrate
the utility of the Internet2's Abilene network at its launch in
Washington, DC. CNN covered this event and showed demonstrations
of TerraVisionTM in action.
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Think Globally, Act Digitally
Technology Review, March/April 1999
This article describes the TerraVisionTM II system and
its goal of producing a Digital Earth where users can explore the
world from their computer terminal.
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SuperNet Aims To Solve The Need For Speed
TechWeek, January 25 1999
TerraVisionTM has featured as an example application
that could benefit from the development of a Next Generation Internet
(NGI).
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SRI International Awarded .6 Million for Development of 3-D Visualization
System
SRI International Press Release, February
6 1997
This is the initial press release announcing the funding of the
TerraVisionTM II system, as part of the DARPA-funded MAGIC
II project.
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Research Dream Job: Blast the Bandwidth
Wired News, February 26 1997
TerraVisionTM must really be pretty cool! The initial
job posting, seeking for an engineer to work on the TerraVisionTM II
system, was advertized by Wired News as a "dream job".
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