Acknowledgements

Section 1: Overview and Objectives

1.1 Who is this Guide for?
1.2 Introducing virtual reality
1.3 How to use this Guide
1.4 Other guides in this series

Section 2: Virtual Reality: History, Philosophy and Theory

2.1 What is virtual reality?
2.2 Origins of virtual reality
2.3 Flexibility and interaction
2.4 Applications
2.5 Virtual reality formats
2.6 Theoretical considerations for the development of virtual reality projects

Section 3: Virtual Reality Methods and Techniques

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Good practices for creating virtual reality
3.3 User requirements
3.4 Building the world
3.5 Hardware, testing and maintenance
3.6 Bubble worlds
3.7 Virtual Reality Modeling Language
3.8 X3D
3.9 Java and Java3D
3.10 Other environments

Section 4: Collaborative Virtual Environments

4.1 CVE technology; how does it work?
4.2 User representation
4.3 Interaction and communication
4.4 Systems overview
4.5 Active Worlds
4.6 Blaxxun

Section 5: Documenting Data from a Virtual Reality Project

5.1 Planning for the creation of digital data
5.2 Project documentation
5.3 Documenting the audience
5.4 Documenting methods and techniques
5.5 Documenting the delivery platform
5.6 Reporting project outcomes
5.7 Description of archive

Section 6: Archiving Virtual Reality Projects

6.1 Introduction to archiving virtual reality projects
6.2 Digital archiving strategies
6.3 Archiving particular virtual reality formats
6.4 Guidelines for depositing digital archives
6.5 Depositing virtual reality with the Arts & Humanities Data Service

Section 7: Resource Discovery

7.1 Access and use
7.2 Metadata and virtual reality projects

Appendix 1: Author biographies
Appendix 2: Documentation checklist
Appendix 3: Information standards
Glossary
Bibliography

The Virtual Reality Case Study Library

How to locate browsers and plug-ins
Netiquette in Collaborative Virtual Environments