1. FREE BOOK Ambient Intelligence: The evolution of technology, communication and cognition towards the future of human-computer interaction
2. Ambient Intelligence: Changing Forms of Human-Computer Interaction and their Social Implications
3. Ambient Intelligence in everyday live (1.2 Mb - PDF)
4. Ambient Intelligence: Visions and Achievements - DATE 2003 proceedings (840 Kb - PDF)
5. Ambient Intelligence in Health Care (4.5 Mb -PDF)
6. Scenarios for Ambient Intelligence in 2010 - ISTAG report (1MB - PDF)
7. Ambient Intelligence: The vision of Information Society (PDF)
8. Ambient Intelligence - Philips Home Lab View (PDF)
9. Enabling Ambient Intelligence via the Web (PDF)
10. Graspable Objects in Ambient Intelligence (PDF)
11. Scaling into Ambient Intelligence (PDF)
12. Presence 2010 - The Emergence of Ambient Intelligence (PDF)
13. Ambient Intelligence within an Home Environment (PDF)
14. Ambient Intelligence and the IS in 2010 (PDF)
15. IC Design challenges for Ambient Intelligence (PDF)
16. Ambient Intelligence: Vision and Achievments (PDF)
17. Real time coordination for Ambient Intelligence (PDF)
18. Smart Artefacts and the Disappearing Computer (PDF)
19. Eusai 2004 Ambient Intelligence: a report
20. SoC 2003 - Smart Objects Conference Proceedings
21. HUMANTEC Project - Design for Humanization of Technology
22. Ambient Intelligence - The Philips Web Site
23. Philips Pictures on Ambient Intelligence
24. The Ambience EU Project
25. The OXYGEN MIT Project
26. The Aware Home GeorgiaTech project  
27. The Disappearing Computer Initiative
28. The Disappearing Computer
    by Bill Gates
29. The AMI GO - Ambient Intelligence to go - research project
30. Resonantware: Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices Visualized by Designers
31. Accenture Technology Labs.
32. IBM Pervasive computing Lab.

1. Mixed Reality Papers
   1. Mixed Reality Architecture: Concept, Construction, Use (PDF file)
   2. Augmented Reality (on Scientific American)
   3. A Conceptual Framework for Mixed Reality Environments (PDF File)
   4. Authoring Mixed Reality. A Component and Framework-Based Approach (PDF File)
   5. A Framework for Relating Head-Mounted Displays to Mixed Reality (PDF File)
   6. Augmenting Reality Through Coordinated Use of Diverse Interfaces (PDF File)
   7. The Use of Spatial Models in Mixed-Reality Systems (PDF File)
   8. An Authoring Toolkit for Mixed Reality Experiences (PDF File)
   9. Collaborative Mixed Reality (PDF File)
   10. Tangible Mixed Reality for Architectural Design (PDF File)
   11. Staging the space of mixed reality (PDF File)
   12. Mixed Reality or One Reality
   13. Perceptual Issues in Augmented Reality
   14. Multi-player Entertainment in Mixed Reality Space
   15. Social Networking in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (PDF file)
2. Mixed Reality Research Projects
3. AMIRE - Mixed Reality EU funded project
4. Mixed Reality at the Fraunhofer Institute
5. Mixed Reality at Canon
6. Mixed Reality Lab. at Singapore
7. Mixed Reality at the ATR Lab., Kyoto, Japan
8. Mixed Reality Lab. at University of Nottingham
9. Mixed Reality at the University of Art & Design, Helsinki
10. The MATISSE Project (ART performance)
11. IMMOBOTS - The new robots

Search Virtual Reality or Cyberspace in Google Scholar
 

1. Introduction to Virtual Reality
   1. What is VR?
   2. The Enciclopedia of VEs
   3. Handbook of Virtual Environments
   4. VR Links
   5. VR Search engine
2. Being There: Presence in Virtual Reality
3. From Cyborgs to Cyberbodies:The Evolution of the Concept of Techno-Body in Modern Medicine
4. PC based VR
5. VR applications (1)
6. VR applications (2)
7. The disappearing computer
8. The Psychology of Cyberspace
9. Computer Mediated Communication (PDF file)
10. Towards CyberPsychology
11. Electronic journals and news-groups (general)
12. Technology review   
    1. General review of technology
    2. Head Mounted displays
    3. 3d glasses
    4. 3d projection screens
    5. VE Interface Technology
    6. 3D engines list
    7. 3D Software
    8. 3D Audio
    9. The best HW/SW solutions
13. Haptics  
    1. Haptics Library 
    2. Haptics links
    3. Haptics-e: The Electronic Journal of Haptics Research
    4. Haptics references (listed for areas)
14. Where to buy VR Stuff
    1. Virtual Realities (all the stuff)
    2. I-o Display Systems (3D glasses)
    3. Elumens (Display solutions)
    4. Cyviz (3d systems)
15. FREE Cybertherapy and Cyberpsychology journals
    1. Emerging Communication
    2. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
    3. Journal of Information Technology in Healthcare
    4. Psychnology
    5. Virtual Medical Worlds Journal
16. Professional virtual environments for mental health therapy

    1. Virtually Better Virtual airplane, Virtual audiences, Virtual heights and Virtual Thunderstorm ($ 10000 each software or $5000 + $4000 for 24 mths including hardware)

    2. Previ Virtual & Body, Virtual Openout 2000 and Psychoflight ($2500 each software)

    3. VirtualHealing Real stories of virtual reality as healing art

    4. Integrated Media System Center The use of Panoramic Video Environments for the treatment of phobias

1. Sensing in VR
   1. Vision in VR
   2. Vision and virtual environments
   3. Hearing in VR
   4. Virtual auditory displays
   5. Virtual acceleration:  The role of the vestibular modality
2. Eye tracking in virtual environments
3. Locomotion interfaces (PDF file)
4. Gesture recognition (PDF file)
5. Human factors
   1. Human factors: a review (PDF file)
   2. Motion sickness: Neurophysiology, Physiological Correlates, and Treatment
   3. Human syndromes associated with synthetic experiences such as virtual environments
   4. VR vestibular adaptation and aftereffects measurement
6. Direct effects of virtual environments on users
7. VR as advanced communication tool (PDF file)
8. VR market and future
9. Info about VR Online
   1. VR Worlds on the Internet: Software and tutorial
   2. An Advanced Course on Avatars: Building and Exploring VR worlds on the Internet  
   3. The VRML Repository
   4. A Taxonomy for networked VEs (PDF file)
   5. Internet-based virtual environments
10. Info about Mobile VR
    1. Mobile 3D World
    2. 3D displays for mobile devices
    3. 3D graphics on mobile devices
    4. 3D graphics for mobile platforms
    5. 3D graphics on mobile phones (by Nokia)
    6. Develop state-of-the art 3D mobile games
    7. Mobile 3D Computing
    8. Mobile gaming goes 3D
    9. Mobile gaming prepares for takeoff
    10. Mobile Roundtable: The Future of 3D Mobile Gaming
    11. Trends in Mobile 3D (PDF)
    12. The future in Games Development: 3D mobile
    13. Adding games, graphics on handsets (PDF)
    14. Advanced Game Development with the Mobile 3D Graphics API
    15. Free engines
    16. Ege3D - 3D engine for Symbian 60
    17. Epoc 3D engine for Symbian 60
    18. JAVA 3D API
    19. M3G Export for 3D Studio Max
    20. Magic 101 SDK for Symbian 80
    21. MEAT 3D engine for Symbian 60
    22. Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME
    23. Nokia 3D engine sample
    24. Open GL ES 3d engine
    25. X3D 3d language ISO standard
    26. Xith 3D for Java
    27. Professional engines
    28. Flash Lite SDK (2D engine)
    29. Intergrafx 3D Studio SDK
    30. Mophun 3D engine for Symbian
    31. M3G Export for Maya to Mobile 3D Graphics (M3G)
    32. NF3d game engine for Mobile phones
    33. Swerve Studio 3D engine
    34. Xforge 3D engine for Symbian, Palm, Pocket PC

1. FREE VR Books
   1. VR in Neuro-Psycho Physiology
   2. VR in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience  
   3. VR: Scientific and technological challenges
   4. Communications through virtual technologies  
   5. Towards Cyberpsychology: Mind, cognition and society in the Internet age
   6. Avatars!: Exploring and building Virtual World on the Internet
   7. Handbook of Virtual Environments
      1. Virtual environments in manufacturing
      2. VR systems design
      3. Cognitive aspects of virtual environments design
      4. Influence of individual differences on VR application 
      5. Assessment of virtual ergonomics
      6. Usability engineering of virtual environments (PDF file)
      7. Measuring and managing presence in virtual environments
      8. The social impact of virtual environments technology
      9. Adapting to virtual environments (PDF file)
      10. Multimodal interaction modeling (Word file)
      11. Virtual Environments and products liability
      12. Spatial orientation, wayfinding and representation
      13. VR as a tool for academic learning
      14. Team training in VR
      15. Entertainment application of virtual environments
      16. VR engineering applications (PDF File)
2. FREE E-health Books
   1. A Brief History of the Mind
   2. Telemedicine: a guide to assessing telecommunications for health care
   3. Networking health: prescriptions for the Internet
   4. Health Performance Measurement in the Public Sector: Principles and Policies for Implementing an Information Network  
   5. The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care, Revised Edition
   6. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care
   7. Envisioning the National Health Care Quality Report
   8. Innovation and Invention in Medical Devices
   9. Networked systems and embedded computers 
   10. Making IT Better: Expanding Information Technology Research to Meet Society's Needs  
   11. Bioinformatics: Converting Data to Knowledge
   12. Beyond Productivity: Information, Technology, Innovation, and Creativity
3. FREE E-Health reports
   1. eHealth: Mapping the Potential of eHealth: Empowering the Citizen through eHealth Tools and Services
   2. HIWW.ORG: The First and Most Comprehensive Health Informatics Index Site
   3. Informing the Future: Critical Issues in Health (PDF file)
   4. Mental Health; A report of the Surgeon General  
   5. Myths and Realities of Online Clinical Work  
   6. ABC's of Internet Therapy Guide
   7. Clinical Applications of Telehealth in Mental Health Care
   8. A Guide to E-Health for the Healthcare Professional: An Introduction
   9. A Guide to E-Health for the Healthcare Professional: What Your Patients Should Know
   10. Telemedicine for the  MEDICARE population
   11. Telemedicine report to congress
   12. Ehealth: Market Potential and Business Strategies  
   13. Ethical Considerations in the Business Aspects of Health Care
   14. The Emerging European Health Telematics Industry
       1. Final report
       2. Annexes
       3. Executive Summary
   15. Through the Kaleidoscope: Viewing the Contributions of the Behavioral and Social Sciences to Health
   16. Medical Innovation in the Changing Healthcare Marketplace
4. FREE Technology/Internet Books
   1. The Future of the Internet: technology experts and scholars evaluate where the network is headed in the next ten years
   2. The Internet's coming of age
   3. Embedded, Everywhere: A Research Agenda for Networked Systems of Embedded Computers
   4. Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits
   5. Trust in Cyberspace
   6. Information Systems and the Environment
   7. Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow
   8. Making IT Better: Expanding Information Technolog Research to Meet Society's Needs
   9. The art of electronic publishing: Internet and beyond

1. Free Tools for VR Development
   1. Maya 5 Personal Learning Edition (Platform for creating 3D graphics)
   2. GMax 3D Game Editor (Editor for commercial 3D games)
   3. Eon Personal Edition (Web based 3d environment)
   4. New-Generation Open Web3D Standard (Free SDK)
   5. Alice2.0b(VR development Kit)
   6. VNet (Multi-user VRML-Java based VR toolkit)
      • VR worlds created using VNet
   7. Blender (3D game/world creator)
   8. 3D Rad Free (3D game toolkit)
   9. VRUT  (3D graphics environment  for building and rendering VEs)
   10. Wild Tangent Personal Web Driver (Web based 3D environment)
   11. Traveler Communities (3D Web based chat)
   12. VR Pharus 3D Builder - Free VRML Development toolkit

2. Professional tools for VR development

   1. 3D Rad  3D Rad Network
   2. Activeworlds  World Server
   3. Adobe Atmosphere
   4. Anark Anark Studio

   5. Apple  QuickTime VR

   6. Conitec  3D Game Studio

   7. Cycore CULT 3D Designer

   8. Eon  Eon Studio, Eon Server and Eon Immersive

   9. iPix  360 Suite

   10. Macromedia  Director MX

   11. Sense 8  WorldToolkit, World Up and World2World

   12. Virtools  Virtools Dev

   13. Viewpoint  Developer zone

   14. WildTangent  Web Driver SDK

1. White papers from:
   

   1. The future of telecommunications:
      Is there a revenue for Quality? (Pdf, 1405 Kb)

   2. Is there a future
      for Telecommunications? (Pdf, 1225 Kb)

   3. A wireless word (Pdf, 2310 Kb)

   4. The Future of Communications.
      Managing What, Managing How? (Pdf, 2685 Kb)

2. Other "future"essays

   1. Converging Technologies
      for Improving Human Performance:
      Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information
       Technology and Cognitive Science (Pdf, 5580 Kb

   2. The future of everything from BT

   3. Future technologies white papers from BT

   4. The future of communication from Vodafone

   5. "Future" projects at MIT Media Lab.

   6. The future from the IST Advisory Group - ISTAG

3. IPTS "future" projects

   1. Fistera - Foresight on Information Society
       Technologies
       in the European Research Area

   2. Futures - Emerging cross-impacts between
       technological, social, political and economic/
       industrial trajectories

   3. Euforia - Knowledge society foresights                 

4. Sites where you can track
    the technologies of the future

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