NPSNET | Michael Zyda

NPSNET Research Group

The NPSNET Research Group was my research group at the Naval Postgraduate School from 1991 - 2000, when I founded the Modeling, Virtual Environments & Simulation (MOVES) Institute. The NPSNET videos are included as a historical reference as to what early networked virtual worlds looked like in that era. The videos were recorded and edited in S-VHS and the quality is not great but these are good references for some of the FIRSTS that the NPSNET Research Group performed. My Publications page here has many papers on the NPSNET project as well as Student theses here.

Collected Video

I collected the following videos, originally recorded in S-VHS and digitized them in 2013 as part of an expert witness case for Ropes & Gray. I posted them on YouTube for their historic value. There are 29 total videos. All of the ones labeled NPSNET were part of my research project. The FutureQuest episodes I was interviewed on. The Tomorrow's Realities Jury reels from 1991 I included as there is an NPSNET submission in there - I left the rest of the material on for historic context. I chaired the 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and there is an NPSNET piece in the tapes - I included the rest of the material for context to show what others were doing work on in that year. The 1993 SIGGRAPH course videos on VR are included for context as is the Battle of 73 Easting video.

Index of Historic Tapes Digitized by Michael Zyda

Today’s Date is 3 June 2013

This collection of tapes was made while Michael Zyda was a Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School. For the most part, they were recorded in S-VHS, a higher resolution version of VHS. They were digitized using a Sony SVO-2100 and Grass Valley ADVC 110 purchased for this project. The ADVC was connected to a MacBookPro Retina running iMovie using the ADVC as an input camera.

Most of the tapes in this collection had a handwritten date – that date represented the date the videotape was edited. I have preserved that date on each segment by adding a single four second credit stating that information at the start of each segment.

For the occasional tape without date, I listed the date of the event/conference/demonstration where the video was recorded or the date where the material was presented.