The Virtual Reality Archive
From January 1991 until January 1997, CyberEdge Journal was the voice of the virtual reality industry. Starting as an 8-page pamphlet, it grew to become the journal of record for the industry, read in more than 40 countries by thousands of subscribers. It grew by publishing the truth about VR – both good and bad – for all to see and comment on.
Over the 35 issues of CyberEdge journal, it printed stories about the people, applications, technology, products, disputes, and concerns of a growing industry. While Ben Delaney did much of the writing, as editor he was proud to feature some of the leading writers on VR from around the world, including Howard Rheingold, Francis Hamit, Bob Gelman, Mark Pesce, William Martens, Kenny Meyer, Bernie Roehl, Walter Greenleaf, Joanna Alexander, Mark Long, Rob Johnston, Sandra Helsel, Christine Treguier, Jeffrey Abouaf, Myron Kreuger, Christian Bauer, and others. We printed photos, diagrams, letters to the editor, and even Zippy the Pinhead’s take on VR.
The newsletter also gave its readers a complete conference calendar, book reviews, and reports from conferences and meetings around the world. Each year, CyberEdge Journal bestowed the coveted. CJ awards for the best Virtual Reality products of the year. These trophies are still seen in the offices of the VizSim/VR companies around the world.
CyberEdge Journal provided on-line resources in 1991, and continued to cover the impact of the Internet on VR throughout its history. That led to the development of the first VR-oriented website, CyberEdge Electric, in 1995, and ultimately, to this site itself, the third major revision since then.
Though few of the technologies and products written about in CyberEdge Journal are still important, many of the ideas are. Furthermore, we believe that having an historical record of those exciting years is both entertaining and useful. In that sprit, we provide in this section some of our favorite articles from six years of CyberEdge Journal.
Here we offer a few of the articles written by Ben Delaney. We will occasionally add more articles, so check back. You will find even more articles from the CEJ Archive on the CyberEdge website CEJ Archive.
You will need the free Adobe Acrobat to view some of these articles.
You can get it here.
| Virtual Reality Product of the Year Awards Summary | ||
| Articles from 1991 | ||
| What is CyberEdge Journal? | ||
| Highlights of the First Annual Virtual Reality Conference | ||
| The Big Kids Play With VR | ||
| Santa Cruz CyberConf 2 | ||
| US Senate Subcommittee Hearing | ||
| CHI '91 – Reaching Through Technology | ||
| Articles from 1992 | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Articles from 1993 | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Articles from 1994 | ||
| Immersive VR tests best | ||
| More coming soon | ||
| Articles from 1995 | ||
| Summer Meetings | ||
| More coming soon | ||
| Articles from 1996 | ||
| Reflections on the Appearance of VR | ||
| More coming soon | ||
| Articles from 1997 | ||
| Issue #35, January/February 1997 (The complete final issue) |
From 1997 until 2003, when it ceased publication, Ben Delaney wrote a monthly column in the newsletter Real Time Graphics. Here a some of those articles.
| The Failure of VizSim [The Banned Article] | ||
| The State of VR | acrobat | |
| More articles will be available soon. |
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