GopherVR
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gophervr-187-12715888
title:
GopherVR
text:
GopherVR is an enhanced Internet Gopher client that includes a 3D visualization tool for viewing resource collections as 3D scenes. It explored how people outside of formal research laboratories could use spatial metaphors to access information. The 3D view was intended to be similar to 3D games of the time, like Spectre. The authors were interested in how this spatial representation could address the "lost in hyperspace" feeling that people using conventional Gopher clients sometimes experience
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GopherVR
date created:
2005-12-29T23:12:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T19:23:28Z
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13
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