THE 3D ART MUSEUM ELEVATOR CONTROL PANEL

Please download free Virtus Player  now (1.34 MB)

see downloading note  and instructions below

Select an elevator button. After the file loads, hit the browser's "Reload" button once or more times and the vrml gallery file will start downloading.

You need the VRML browser plug in Virtus Player-scroll below

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The Classic-the original designed elevator includes all 26 VRML floors of Pygoya Webmuseum's virtual reality art galleries. Of course it has the longest download time but is the most realistic experience.

MIDI files are electronic or digital music, format with the shortest sound file downloading time, therefore popular for Web use. WAV files sound like actual musical instruments but require much larger files to accomodate the increase data to create such complex sounds. WAV files as alternative background music with audio streaming is planned for the future.

The other elevators are the Express Elevators. Each routes to less gallery floors so have quicker download times than the Classic.

For a quick ride to the top and a breath of fresh air or to shortcut to the VIP Suite, the PH & VIP Suite elevator is constructed for your convenience. The PH includes an adjacent added room named the VIP Suite. Therefore the PH file is the same as the PH & VIP file. The selection, VIP Suite in Terminal VRML, is the same PH file but with a different viewer/brower entry position of the 3D space. A VIP Suite not attached to PH is under construction. Such an alternative will shorten downloading time of VIP Suite shows (although it sacrifices a bit of realism- PH & VIP are virtually attached in Cyberspace).

For more information about the works of art than provided within each gallery's "History" room, please go to the Webmuseum's Permanent Art Collection Archive

Please download Virtus Player PC now (1.34 MB). Mac users download Playermac.sea.hqx
The 1.34MB plug- in for Netscape takes approximately 12 minutes to download with a 28.8K modem.



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 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!
      

Browser's Note: Linked message in each floor's elevator dysfunctional due to error in VRML program used to construct the site. If using Navigator, please use 'BACK" button to return to this Elevator Control Panel page.

Selecting "Full Screen" will cause the lost of the lower tool bar of navigational directional arrows so don't use it. Virtus tech support wrote "Space bar is used in Full Screen to access menu options while ESC will terminate the Full Screen session". Experience will show that navigation is crude and you will get "lost" just using the mouse and keyboard. To get out of Full Screen (and back to navigational screen tool bars) hit the Space bar and click on "Full Screen". Then click on the "home" icon at the extreme right of the lower navigational bar and you will be back from where you got lost in the black void of Full Screen. Until navigational tools are perfected Full Screen's function is solely to get rid of text for screen capturing and printing.

Virtual Reality Guests- AWARD THYSELF!

Feel free to download this badge of accomplishment if you have experienced vrml exhibits
here at the museum. Haven't and want to? Here's how: Get vrml Netscape Plug-in. To make it easier, download simple instructions to install it into Netscape as your browser:)

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