VRML art museums of cyberart, digital art, & animation offers online museum experience as indigenous cyberculture!

- DEPARTURES TO - ARRIVALS FROM -

WEBMUSEUM CYBERCOLONY

WEBMUSEUMS OF CYBERART

See information about guest exhibitions at the Pygoya Webmuseum's Cyberists Hall and the VIP Suite Gallery by scrolling below into the VRML section

Free VRML Browser

3-D virtual reality requires downloading Virtus Player (v3.0), freeware from Virtus Corporation maximizing download speed and graphic quality of VRML .wsb files constructed with Virtus 3-D Website Builder. The 1.34MB plug- in for Netscape takes approximately 12 minutes to download with a 28.8K modem.

System Requirements-
PC/WINDOWS - 386-based or later PC, 8 MB of RAM, Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows 95; MACINTOSH/POWER MACINTOSH - any color Macintosh or Power Macintosh, 8 MB of RAM, System 6.0.4 or later

French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish - this page only


Please download Virtus Player PC version now (1.34 MB)


HOW TO INSTALL Virtus Player on your computer- (C'mon, it's easy! You can do it!)

1. After downloading file, place "player30.exe" in a folder (title it "Player30") by itself.
2. Double-click the "Player30" folder to open it.
3. Double-click on "player30.exe" to extract the compressed files. Close this window of listed files by clicking on the upper right corner "X" button.
4. Double-click the "Setup.exe" file and follow the instructions for installing Virtus Player on your computer.
5. After Virtus Player is installed on your computer, you need to tell your browser to use it (as a plug in) to view .wsb files:

   For Internet Explorer 5.0 users:

   1. When you click a vrml link and the browser prompts you, choose "Open this file from its current location" and click the "OK" button.
   2. After the vrml gallery file downloads, another dialogue window should appear.
   3. Scroll down and select "VPlayer" in the upper window, and make sure the "Always use this program to open this file" box is checked. Then click "OK" to enter the gallery.
   4. When you are done exploring the vrml gallery, close the VPlayer window by clicking the X in the upper right corner of the window.

   For Netscape Navigator 3.0 users:

   1. Go to the "General Preferences" window in the "Options" menu.
   2. Click on the "Helpers" tab.
   3. Click on the "Create New Type" button.
   4. Enter "wsb-world" as Mime Type and "wsb-vrml" as Mime SubType. Click "OK"
   5. In the File Extensions field, enter "wsb"
   6. Make sure "Launch the Application" is selected, then click "Browse" and find the directory in which Virtus Player was installed.
   7. Select "Vplayer.exe" and click "OK" and you're done!
      

   For Mac users download the Mac version of Playermac.sea.hqx.

   Instructions for Mac users from a Mac artist using Player

   
   
   http://www.virtus.com/files/player/mac/player_26_mac.sea.hqx
   try to download the application for Virtus Player from the above address,
   it worked for me. Seiji Ueoka , R2001 Project, http://r2001.com
   

   For Microsoft Internet Explorer users also go directly to www.virtus.com

To print these instructions, click here to go to a page with only these instructions.

Some User Tips (courtesy of R2001 WebRing)

If you have installed Virtus Player, Enter Webmuseum's Virtual Reality

NOW -

Note: when vrml (.wsb) files start dowloading, a window called "Viewing Location" appears with the time remaining for downloading. Place your cursor IN the window. Should the screen saver take over and create the blank screen, when you click the mouse to check progress you won't lose the window. If the cursor was outside the window, the window automatically closes with any click of the mouse. But if the window closes, don't worry, downloading conintues and you can open the window again by clicking on the window's icon in Netscape's lower screen selection bar.

THE PYGOYA WEBMUSEUM CYBER-GROUNDS

Lobby Entrance (.wsb)

Lobby Image Map (HTML)

Museum Information Center or Information Center Image Map

The Gift Shop or Gift Shop Image Map

The Collector's Gallery or Collector's Gallery Image Map

Cyberists Hall- first floor of Pygoya Webmuseum

Now in  Cyberists Hall
August 20 - December 31, 1998
Renata - Approaching Heaven's Gate
Extended due to popular demand

Elevators to Gallery Floors (HTML)
Gallery City Names and Lists of Artworks(HTML)
Special Notice- Gallery City Tokyo VR Gallery now featured at
VRML R2001 Gallery of the Rennaissance 2001 Webring (Jan.24,,98)

A visiting artist's review of ALL upstairs galleries (4/27/98)
Ansgard Thomson, Alberta, Canada

The Penthouse

TheVIP Suite

VIP Suite Gallery

Kolja Tatic, Yugoslavia
October 1- March 31, 1998

GLASS CITY

Visit more attractions at Webmuseum Cybercolony

THE RAVE WEBMUSEUM OF CYBERART
TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION GALLERY

Spotlight Gallery of Rave Webmuseum

Earl Hinrichs Masterful Fractals

Math, Mind and Cyberspace

November 1, 1998 - May 31, 1999

Rave's Webmuseum Art College Gallery

Art & Design Students and Faculty of



October  1998 - January 31, 1999

NEW! CYBERCULTURE ART MUSEUM
WORK USING THE INTERNET AS ART SUBJECT MATTER

Cyberculture Research Library (HTML)

THE O' CARNEY WEBMUSEUM THEATER

THE WEBMUSEUM CYBERCOLONY
all webmuseums in vrml space!

IMAGE MAP OF THIS WEB SITE (HTML)

The Webmuseum Cybercolony

MIRROR VRML GALLERY OF R2001 WEBRING'S 4-CORNERS WORLD GALLERY

at our member site, LIGHTHOME HAWAII

Save and paste on your site this badge of   accomplishment if you have installed the plug-in
on your computer and can visit our vrml gallery exhibits!

Here's how: Get vrml Netscape Plug-in. To make it easier, download simple instructions
to install it into Netscape as your browser:)

badge of accomplishment

CURRENT STATUS OF VRML EXPERIENCE OF THIS WEB SITE - the VRML 3-D files were constructed in mid-1996 with Virtus 3DWebsite Builder software. At this present time of launching the files unto the Internet it was discovered that the browser for this program "never made it past the beta-testing version". As of June 1997 the company's only VRML browser for their proprietary .wsb VRML files is Virtus Player. This new replacement browser does show the files with the original great color and textures appropriate for a virtual fine arts exhibition space. However, very disappointingly, links to HTML text support pages AND other .wsb 3-D rooms do not function with Virtus Player! Virtus technical support said they are "researching the request" to make the .wsb files' links function (do what they are suppose to do according to the product's manual guidelines). Virtus tech support suggested an alternative browser, such as Netscape 3.0 with its 3dLive VRML browser. However our experimentation demonstrated that the converted .wsb to standard VRML .wrl files take way too long to download into Navigator - on this PC's hard drive! Just as importantly, there was a huge loss in color and texture quality, resulting in inferior appearance of the exhibited artwork within the virtual galleries. So our team make the decision to go with .wsb visual quality, intact online with the freeware, Virtus Player, handily downloadable right from this page. Special pages were built in HTML to enable the browser to get around in the different virtual reality rooms and sound is attained for art viewing pleasure. Hopefully Virtus Corporation soon will offer upgraded software that has 1) links that go back and forth between VRML and HTML, 2) links to music files from within VRML so that the cool music buttons in the elevators work in the future, 3) .wsb files requiring .bmp graphic files can be converted to .jpegs and 4) popular browsers such as Netscape and Internet Explorer can dispaly the existing .wsb files as converted .wrl files with comparable visual quality. We know people hestitate to tie up their systems downloading specialized browsing software. But consider that with Virtus Player your virtual reality experience will be artistically greatly enhanced beyond what is currently available with Navigator 3.0. Plus navigating around the museum is much easier and intuitive and downloading files are 3 to 4 times FASTER as .wsb rather than .wrl files!! Art Lovers, For Art's Sake, Please Download! (if not now, bookmark and do it later to truly experience this Web site) -- Cyberstaff of lastplace.com, June 30, 1

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