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The Panopticon
is built around the VNet multi-user VR system, written by Stephen
White and Jeff Sonstein using only the open standards of VRML
2.0 and Java.
All you need
to connect to a VNet multiuser environment is a VRML 2.0-compliant
browser, ie a browser equipped with a VRML savvy plugin. MAc users
using the Cosmo Beta 2 plugin will need to download the Cosmoplugin.jar
(36k zip) file to enable the Java multiuser chat applet to function.
This was not included in the Cosmo Player install file. Place
it in your plugin folder.
Newer versions
of Netscape need an alias of the Cosmo Plugin to be placed in
the Netscape plugins folder. The plugin is automatically installed
in the Cosmo folder (in the extensions folder inside the Syatem
folder), but an alias needs to be manually placed inside Netscapes
Plugin folder.
VNet is free
software, released under the GNU General Public License (VNet
is not GNU software; it just has the same license). This means
that you can download and modify the VNet source code, as long
as you provide your changes back to the VNet community. Any derivative
works based on VNet must also be released under the GPL with source
code.
No modifications
have been made to the VNET code for the Panopticon environments.
The Panopticon is running from an Apple Macintosh Blue G3 server
using Mac OSX and the Apache file server. Previously it was running
under Mac OS 8.6 running WebStar.
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