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Article: VIRTUAL REALITY MEETS THE INTERNET: APPLE'S QUICKTIME VR NOW AVAILABLE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
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- PR Newswire
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- July 14, 1995
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NEW YORK (Macintosh New York Music Festival), July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtual reality experiences are now possible for World Wide Web users, thanks to Apple Computer's (Nasdaq: AAPL) QuickTime VR software, available today for the first time on selected World Wide Web sites. QuickTime VR -- short for virtual reality -- is software that lets a user view a photographic or rendered representation of a scene. Using the mouse and keyboard, consumers can zoom in or out of a scene, navigate from one scene to another, and even pick up and inspect objects. As the user changes his or her view of the scene, correct perspective is maintained, creating the effect of being at the location ...