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+title: "Researching file formats 28: Virtual Reality Modeling Language"
+date: 2024-03-08 08:00:00 -0500
+tags: [file formats, fdds]
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+This blog post is part of a series on file formats research. See [this introduction post](https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2023/08/04/researching-file-formats-library-of-congress-sustainability-of-digital-formats/) for more information.
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+I was getting so overwhelmed surfing the old web for this format. It was absolutely thrilling but exhausting too, like when you're on your 13th day of vacation and you're so worn out but there's so much more to see. Nothing is more exciting to me than looking into VIRTUAL WORLDS. I felt like it looked like I was having a total manic episode on Mastodon because I kept finding so many things to post. I wasn't even caffeinated, it was just pure childlike glee.
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+Some highlights and links:
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+- One of the leads on this language/format, Mark Pesce, has [an extremely trippy website](https://web.archive.org/web/19990220011221/http://www.hyperreal.org/%7Empesce/).
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+- Appreciate Netscape's collection of [Cool Worlds](https://web.archive.org/web/19970613235309/http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/live3d/cool_worlds.html). But if you want just VRML, [look no further](https://web.archive.org/web/19970101040030/http://sdsc.edu/vrml/browsers.html).
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+- You've gotta check out [Floops](https://web.archive.org/web/19970605091953/http://vrml.sgi.com/floops/)
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+- "support for extremely large worlds (we've tested worlds up to 12MB)" ([source](https://web.archive.org/web/19970126034428/http://www.tcp.ca/gsb/VRML/))
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+- "The viewer for this format should be built into your WWW browser. If you can not view it, your WWW browser is probably installed incorrectly" ([source](https://web.archive.org/web/19990202111354/http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/documents/tests/txt.html))
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+- love this [404 page from The Well](https://web.archive.org/web/19990417175851/http://www.well.com/user/caferace/vrml.html)
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+- this [mesh of a baboon face](https://web.archive.org/web/19970430082132/http://www.ywd.com/cindy/concepts.html)
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+- "P.S. If I lost you at the Web, (World Wide Web or WWW) you might try using Mosaic or Netscape to look at one of these: The Web Project page: (URL is http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html)" ([source](https://web.archive.org/web/19970503005222/http://vrml.wired.com/VRML_FAQ.html))
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+And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my previous writing on MTV's Virtual World, [Enter the TikkiLand: MTV Spring Break Online](https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2020/11/16/enter-the-tikkiland-mtv-spring-break-online/)