VRML Galleries and Worlds

Introduction: Entrance Exam

How does your world get onto this list? The zeroth criterion is that I have to know it exists. Then I have to be able to get to your website to see it with my own eyes. If it brings up red lights in Cosmo Player or crashes Netscape, it's history. If it brings up yellow lights in Cosmo Player, but what I can see still looks OK, it stays.

The next test is for size and speed. I've got ISDN, and if it takes longer than a minute or two to load, it's gone. Likewise, if the frame rate is so slow on my P133 that it spoils my ability to navigate, it's on the trash pile. Finally there's the aesthetic test. I've built a couple dozen worlds for my site. You'll have to look for them elsewhere. They aren't good enough for this list.

I've taken the VRML 1, VRML 2, and Live3D marks off this list. For one thing, hardly anyone is building VRML 1 worlds or Live3D worlds any more. For another, I took all the graphics off so the page would download in a reasonable time.

When the author of a particular world has specified a particular browser, you'll usually see it in parentheses next to the link. I know there are a couple of Viscape worlds here, which aren't strictly speaking VRML, but they were so gorgeous I couldn't resist.

I put sites in VRML as art category if the site didn't fit better under one of the other categories (which means you'll find excellent VRML artists in lots of categories on this page) and if I thought the site fit my own definition of "art". I gave the benefit of the doubt if the creator claimed his or her purpose was artistic.

Remember to visit the meta-lists, some of which are bigger than this one. And when you visit at the content house sites, linger. They tend to tuck old projects away in odd places.

Places

Real Places

• (Author unknown) Isle of Skye at the University of Edinburgh
• ABACUS Glasgow Model (open soon -- ask the author for the password)
• Proposte Artistiche's I Segreti di Firenze (The Secrets of Florence)
• Vassilis Bourdakis' city of Bath, England and London Map of the Future at CASA
• Rex Brooks's Berkeley, California
• Robert Brunet's Virtual New Orleans
• Ad Fresen's Schiphol Airport -- the world downloads quickly and the guided tours are highly detailed.
• GCO's Honja Jidai Mura (Community Place)
• Halden VR Center's Fredricksten Fortress
• Helsinki Telephone Company's Virtual Helsinki -- perhaps the largest collection of real places ever modeled.
• Intel's Virtual Venice (Viscape)
• intoronto.com's Real Cities in Virtual Reality
• Tomislav Markovinovic's Virtual Croatia
• Meshmart's A World of Worlds
• PM Formation's Queen's Palace in Madagascar
• Costas Terzidis' worlds -- Getty Museum, St. Sophia Church, UCLA buildings
• Linda Vigdor's Grand Central Terminal for the New York VRML SIG

Future/Fantasy Places

• Avatara's worlds look like excellent places for multi-user.
• Blaxxun's Colony City (CCPro) has over 10,000 residents.
• Sergio Garces Casao's Planeta GIGA
• Cybertown - an excellent early virtual community, now affiliated with Colony City, with knockout artwork. Check their Best 3D VR Space Contest and visit their Spaceship. Here's a listing of all their VRML areas
• Ryoichiro Debuchi's Ocean Walk off the Western coast of Japan
• Juergen Koening's worlds -- space scenes with sound: WAV, MIDI, or MPEG-3 -- the first MP3 I've seen in a VRML world.
• NTT Data's Virtual Expo - lets you select an avatar and move around in their virtual worlds, talking to other folks using a Java window. Note: Set your screen to at least 800x600 or you can't get in after selecting the avatar. Also see their back yard.
• Larry Rosenthal has a number of outer space based models and worlds at Cube3
• Sony's Community Place Gallery has a great collection of worlds developed by users
• Web City Office Towers

Architecture and Interior Design

• Steve Bongiovanni's timber frame house at DataCAD LLC
• Vassilis Bourdakis's Bath Abbey
• António José Fernandes' lighthouse and bridge
• Halden VR Center's control rooms
• Hendri Hondorp's Virtual Music Center at the University of Twente. Requires fast CPU, fast rendering engine, T1 or better connection. Most of the time I wouldn't list a world with those requirements, but they do some wonderful things, especially the lighting effects.
• Pablo Jan's worlds -- windmills, sundial, lighthouse
• Harald Junkermann's Sculptor Cyber Architect
• The London Institute's Virtual Stages lets you experiment with stage lighting
• The Longitude Consortium's Millennium Experience (Viscape)
• Chuck and Shirley Lund's desk
• Don Mayer's VRML house
• Ricardo Mercado Mendoza's worlds
• Mr. Phillip's worlds -- church, shrine, miscellaneous objects
• Constantin Rahn's Das Alte Dorf (the old village)
• Gillian Thornhill's 3D Studio Tour at NBC (National Broadcasting Company, USA)

Information Spaces

• Much of Dan Ancona's work is at Ocean of the Streams of Story at the University of Virginia. Dan turns information into art.
• Simon Forestiero's website navigator -- still under construction, but wonderful use of design elements
• Dan Hanley's FreeBase Project
• Lame City -- the world's oldest established "grand opening soon" site
• Tamara Munzner and Paul Burchard's Visualizing the Structure of the World Wide Web in 3D Hyperbolic Space
• NooWare's Noosphere at Sesuad'ra -- forget you don't know what a noosphere is and start off just having fun
• Francisco Luis Roque's VRML Generators -- includes an HTML to VRML generator
• Seb's virtual webpage (French)
• Matthew Sloly's Metaforms -- asks you to upload your history file where it builds a VRML diagram of the relationships between the last 10 places you visited. It's probably worthwhile clearing your history and visiting a dozen places or so, or it'll take forever to upload (this may be broken).
• Popular Mechanics VRML and Shockwave-enhanced webpage
• Jeff Sonstein's Yahoo 3D at the VRMLab
• Technical University of Darmstadt's Orbit
• Transaction Information Systems did some demos of VRML for mathematical surface modeling, statistical maps, and distributed network visualization.

The Arts

Galleries and Museums

• Mario Chiesa's Shroud of Turin
• Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (coins, stamps, medals) -- not only beautiful but fast
• National Gallery of Art's Alexander Calder Exhibitions (mobiles)
• Philadelphia Museum of Art's Brancusi's Mademoiselle Pogany (sculpture)
• Virtual Music Museum of Stockholm (music)

VRML as Art

• Ampcom's Conversations with Angels -- they're no angels. Little AIs toss insults and wisecracks in 3D. They've also got a Blaxxun multi-user world (CCPro) where real people and bots mix it up. This is as much fun as art.
• Jack Andrews' worlds
• Art WAY gallery of VRML art
• David Blair's WAXWeb is an online movie using VRML that's been working (in various manifestations) since 1994.
• Len Bullard's Kate Bush Website in VRML Len has also got a spectacular website for The Princess of Talos Isle of the Jeenix
• Shane Carroll's worlds have a huge range, from abstract to very representational and commercial.
• Don Casteel's Dimensional Creations -- ask him to finish this world
• Codelab's The Spheres
• Miriam English's homepage -- art, avatars, worlds
• David Frerichs will fool you. Meet him casually and he's a charming salesman. But as his worlds and his deeds show, he's a gifted artist, a technical master, a dreamer, and above all, a giver.
• Clay Graham's Goo: Extrusion Forms as Meditation -- check the rest of his site too
• Juan Gril's Rain
• Steve Guynup's Leper Colony -- poetry, moving shapes and colors. More stuff on this site, including this menu based on the work of "Sal" Dali.
• Jeff Harrington's worlds -- beautiful organic looking shapes
• Paul Hoffman's space worlds, a tribute to Chesley Bonestell
• Peter Hughes' Emergent Art -- don't miss Lucy, a creature for biota.org
• Institut Universitari de l'Audoivisual's Galeria Virtual is an interactive essay on the elements of art and the viewer
• Christopher Lane's computer art -- instead of building elaborate 3D structures, Chris experiments with lights through semi-transparent planes.
• Matthew Lewis's Converse and Graffiti
• Gregory Little's Avatars of Pain
• Stephen Matsuba's Constructs and Meme-ing -- an essay in VRML
• Braden McDaniel doesn't have much on his site, but the use of fog in the opening page and the moody lighting on this test world give some tantalizing hints of his abilities.
• Dennis McKenzie has worked on both the major VRML projects, and (in his alter ego of Proteinman) was one of the first world builders. Take a stroll through his site.
• Narcís Parés's Galeria Virtual shows his work and others'. Don't miss his Ferris wheel
• NVRCAD's FAQ on VRML in art and design shows a number of examples
• Ken Perlin and Athomas Goldberg's Sid and the Penguins at NYU -- the hit of SIGGRAPH 98.
• Mark Pesce's "circle"
• RailRoad Earth -- click "Media Library" and look for VRML on the bottom.
• Marko Ross's Digital Garden
• Sesuad'ra has some terrific worlds -- btw, "Exit" is the name of a project
• Carsten Trojan's Transarchitectures and erz
• Scott Young (VRML Knight)'s worlds at Dimensional Graphix
• Michael Yuen's CyberArtist Cinema -- currently down

Drama, Narrative, and Literature

• Dan Ancona's Hell -- a visualization of Dante's Inferno
• Some of Blitcom's Webisodes, featuring Bliss.com
• Paul Hoffman's Irish Space homepage -- the first long-form narrative in 3D.
• Alan Taylor's Raven Stories -- Imagine this scene: the Web3D Roundup at SIGGRAPH 98. 1000 of the most visually literate and technologically jaded people in the world sat in rapt silence as Alan Taylor, with one of these worlds to illustrate, told us a story. Even his trial models are good.
• The VRML Dream Company -- put on a streaming VRML version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Has some sample scenes, music by yr obd't svt. Here's Kiwano's forest world for VRML Dream, featuring a will-o-the-wisp.

Music

• Maribeth Back is experimenting in audio design at Xerox PARC. Check her Audio Aura demo.
• Ron Barack's virtual drum room and multiplayer virtual drum room
• Travis Curl's audio/VRML installations: Spun and MIDI plant (click Vision on the little window that comes up)
• Kamil Dabkowski's DJ's Mixer
• Jeff Harrington's VRML Harmonium

The Sciences

Mathematics

• Vladimir Bulatov's worlds include kaleidoscopes, polyhedra, psychodelic world, and the kaleidoscopic Easter egg
• Jason Culvert's library of 3D mathematical graphs at Technology High School
• George Hart's Pavilion of Polyhedrality
• François LeCoat's mathematical objects
• Construct's platonic solids
• David Roussel's VRML Math Zoo (French | English)
• Jagannathan Sampath's Escher

Physics

• Cicada's Interactive Physics Lab
• John Henckel's gravity simulations
• Edward Zobel's Zona Land mathematics and physics worlds -- it's worth poking around this site for some very cool Java and clearly explained math and physics

Chemistry

• Phil Barak and Ed Nater's Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules
• Will Rourk's molecular motors at the University of Virginia
• Steve Wathen's VRML and Chemistry
• WebMolecules

Biology

• Tomaz Amon's VRML in Biology -- concentrates on cell structures and physiology
• Dform's bacteriophage T4 -- ØT4 was an old friend from genetics class, but I never realized how it worked until I saw this.
• Jamie Eisenhart's MERVIN - Measurement and Visualization of Neurons
• Sandy Ressler, Greg Seidman, and Matt Buckley's Anthropometric Landmarks of the Human Head
• Alexei Sharov's 3D insects at Virginia Tech
• Paul Thiessen's biochemical models at Johns Hopkins illustrating his vrml2pov program.

Medicine

• Martin Connell et al's Applications of VR in Veterinary Science at the University of Edinburgh
• Nigel John and Nick Phillips' web based surgical simulations at the Unyversity of Manchester has a wonderful use of adjustable transparency so the user can see the underlying structures.
• Peter Markush, Gary Grimes, and Jonathan Merril's Networked Virtual Reality Medical Tutor
• Michel Trifot and P Granjean's Medicine in 3 Dimensions (French, English)

Access and Special Needs

• Accessible VRML Graphics by Vladimir Bulatov and the Science Access Project at Oregon State University
• Angus Grieve-Smith's SignSynth at the University of New Mexico
• Matsushita's Japanese Sign Language in VRML. The cube selects the phrase ("My name is Takuya", "Who are you?", "Pleased to meet you") and the cone starts and stops the animation.
• Lynn Messing's Sister Mary of the Internet (Mary O'Net) ASL project
• Sandy Ressler's Making VRML Worlds Accessible for People with Disabilities at NIST
• Sandy Ressler's VRML Sign Language links at the Mining Company.

Artificial Intelligence

• Ergo Linguistic Technologies has Floops doing natural language processing
• Juha Vesanto's Self-Organizing Maps (SOM)

Cognitive Science

• Max Planck Institute's psychophysics experiments

Archaeology

• Chiu-Shui Chan, John Maves, and Carolina Cruz-Neira's Virtual Library of Significant Buildings in their Original Form at Iowa State University
• Delle Maxwell's Tenochtitlan
• Victor Reijs's Maes Howe, a 5000 year old building in Orkney
• Jane Vadnall's and Jeffrey Jacobson's Tomb of Lady Hao

Paleontology

• The British Museum of Natural History's fossils

Geoscience

• CNN's hurricane
• Charles Duncan et al's Applications of VR in Meteorology at the University of Edinburgh
• Cliff Ford et al's Applications of VR in Geological Science at the University of Edinburgh
• Maura Hogan and Kevin Laurent's Virtual Earth Science at USGS
• Greg Leaver and Don Brutzman's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary VRML Terrain Project at the Naval Postgraduate School
• Don Brutzman's students at the Naval Postgraduate School built this model of the kelp forest exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium
• The Monterey Bay world for the VRML 98 Symposium uses digital elevation data, satellite photos and bathymetry data.
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's hurricane visualizations (VRML and QTVR)
• SRI's TerraVision: a distributed interactive system for large geo database visualization, and VRMLSets: VRML terrain datasets
• University of California Santa Cruz PET Slug meteorology station data visualization

Political Science

• Union of International Associations simulation of world problems

Aerospace

• Art on the Net's Japan in the Future contest gallery
• Astronomy Digital Image Library's VRML previews at NCSA.
• Jeff de La Beaujardière's earth at NASA Goddard.
• CNN's space models
• HBO's Flight Simulators -- built by Dennis McKenzie to accompany the series From the Earth to the Moon
• Paul Hoffman's Nebular Nomad II -- a deep space exploration ship and scene from an alien moon
• Hannes Kaufmann's Mars Picture Gallery -- complete with lander
• Mars Pathfinder Mission VRML Models by SGI -- terrain, panoramas, animated lander and Pathfinder.
• Laura Monroe's MAEL (Mobile Aeronautics Education Laboratory) simulator for NASA Ames
• NASA's (Marshall Space Flight Center) VR Space Objects
• NASA Space Station models
• National Geographic magazine's Return to Mars
• Dax Stanley's Eurocopter simulation
• Steve Sycamore's map of the regional galaxies
• Alan Taylor's International Space Station at MSNBC -- I've worked with the models of the Station on two occasions, and what Alan did is simply phenomenal.
• Jörg Vogel's VRML at the DLR Robotics Laboratory
• Udo Zlender's Virtual Astronomy.

Engineering

• Information Assets, Inc.'s engineering VRML models
• Lars Kai Hansen's engineering models
• Damin Keenan's Internet Railroad (EAI) -- a wonderful model railroad simulation, dropping off and picking up boxcars.
• James Kelly's petroleum tank farm (EAI)
• Bob Lipman's scientific, engineering and mathematical VRML worlds at NIST
• Martin Rohrmeier's robot at the German Aerospace Center Institute of Robotics and System Dynamics (Germany, US) -- not only a detailed simulation, but excellent visual appeal.
• Sandy Ressler et al's engineering applications from the Open VR Testbed at NIST
• Technology High School design projects -- some are in VRML
• Peter Torlind's distributed collaborative engineering examples at Luleå University of Technology
• The new VW Beetle in VRML has been found again!
• Qiming Wang's robot arm at NIST

Pursuits

Business

• Blaxxun's virtual bar VRML chat room for Bacardi, Germany (CCPro)
• Blaxxun's Virtual Raleigh for IBM Canada (CCPro)
• Nigel Jenkins' VR installations and apparatus for Trimensions
• Fabric8's Jigowat uses VRML to show jewelry on the net.
• Oracle's Oracle Worlds show data mining and StockSmart price/volume graphs
• Platinum's Forest & Trees uses VRML in an enterprise decision support tool
• Radical VR's furniture assembly in VRML Ever put together one of those "some assembly required" computer hutches? Ever want to see how the pieces go together in 3D? VRML is perfect for this kind of application.
• See a demo of SpaceCubes, and you're going to want to buy them.
• VeriFone has a VRML tour (by Out of the Blue) that shows their process flow.
• Visible Decisions has a VRML gallery showing some of the capabilities of their product
• Vitra lets you arrange modular office furniture in 3D

Education

• Linda Hahner's Familiar Tales -- check the vowel car race
• Elizabeth Murphy's VRML and Online Learning at L'Universite Laval
• Alphabet world by John Nikkel (Ragtimer)

Sports

• Alpentour Steiermark
• CBS Sportsline has an interactive 3D baseball world (CCPro)
• Javier Cuesta's Cycling World game and Soccer Virtual System
• Alberto Levy Maceno's VirtuaTema soccer replays for TV Globo.
• Terada Masaru's Snowboard Jam
• Virtual World Marketing has a golf course and a ski slope

Games

• Slasher Arcana's PacMan game
• Bret Dahlgren's Crazy Eights 3D
• Digital Wizards' chessboard -- with movable pieces
• IdeograFX's worlds and games -- home of the inimitable toilet world, Chick-Tac-Toe, and...
• Matsushita's Wonder Space has some wonderful animations in the anime tradition, including a game called WonderShrine
• OESI's chess pieces
• Jacky Powell's Quest of the Cybernaut game at Kinetix -- there's a couple of JavaScript warnings with Netscape 4.0x, but they seem to be safely ignorable.
• Park Tae-Ha's test drive -- excellent windshield frame for the VRML world and the action is more than fast enough, at least for me -- and Pac-Man game
• Kiwano's Nonentium -- preview of a cyberwar game. Tell him to get busy. I've got my plastic ready to order one if he ever finishes.
• Marius Rochon's dry water sailing race
• Jack Templin, Chris Maroney and Matthew Fetchko's Heart<BR> Hotel

Fun

• Dan Ancona's VRML Refrigerator Magnets (WorldView)
• Matthew Beitler's h-anim compliant Dilbert
• Tracy Bezesky's VRML works -- don't miss the screaming head
• The Community Company's SpongeHenge main page
• Cicada's fanciful intro to the Mars site -- they still have the old (SGI) link, alas.
• Glenn Crocker's Pumpkin carving
• Kamil Dabkowski's disco
• Stephan Diehl's Miss Connectivity uses the EAI to let you shape and texture a humanoid model
• Alexandra Dittmar doesn't have an ISP, but I thought the colors on her little animated desk toy were so good I put it on my site.
• GCO's Train World
• Matt Hedges' Hedge maze
• Richard Kennaway's juggling animations
• Tom Longtin's animations -- I love these little whirligigs
• The Portland Pattern Repository is home to a WikiWikiWeb world that can be modified by its visitors.
• A Tickle Me Elmo doll by Larry Rosenthal of Cube Productions
• Sandy Ressler's Bill and Monica at the Mining Company -- besides being cute, at least to members of one American political party, it demonstrates two cool technologies for character animation.
• Markus Roskothen's Wiener Schnitzel -- yup, the image you think is a GIF is VRML. Click on it.
• Greg Seidman's "adjustable" female model (may be offensive to some)
• Greg Seidman's talking head
• VReality.dk's multi-user Lego building world (EAI)
• The VRML Suppository -- a classic site

Overviews

Meta-Lists

• Next time somebody asks you "Is VRML good for anything useful?" send them to SDSC Education Center's VRML Links by Discipline and their list of VRML Resources for Education.
• Links supporting CMU's class on Virtual Worlds
• CNET's Hot Virtual Reality Sites
• Cosmo Software's galleries -- by subject area
• My Random VRML World for the VRML 98 Symposium
• Martin Favreau's favorite VRML worlds
• David Frerichs' Who What Where -- who's using VRML for what, where
• Geometrek's list of worlds -- don't miss their festivals (holidays) section
• Intel Showcase web sites -- lots of VRML worlds on this list
• Intervista's galleries -- by subject area
• Kahuna's list of worlds
• Daeron Meyer's VRML Legit List -- worlds that have passed the Online VRML 1.0 Authenticator
• Microsoft's commented and illustrated list of worlds
• The Mining Company's lists of apps
• New York VRML SIG's gallery has a list of the SIGGRAPH Web3D Roundup participants
• Proteinman (Dennis McKenzie)'s Top Ten worlds
• Virtually Real has a list of fantasy worlds, but their site is currently under construction
• Jörg Vogel's VRML and Robotics Library
• VRML 98 Symposium Demo SIG participants -- judged to be some of the best worlds on the net.
• VRML 98 Ikonokosmos contest entrants -- more of the best
• VRML Dreamers' Joust for VRML contestants
• The VRML Ring -- like other webrings, it allows you to go from VRML site to VRML site
• Weblynx ultimate virtual world library -- currently down for repair

Content Houses

• 3Name3D is a very energetic content house that has a collection of free models.
• Artmedia's Gallery showcases some of that design firm's projects in a stunningly beautiful world. It pops up 2 auxiliary windows, but they're actually useful.
• Atom is a Japanese firm that's produced such delightful worlds as the V_Land virtual amusement park for Fujitsu. Once you see their hyper-manga home page, you'll be hooked.
• Cicada is concentrating on their new behavioral animation product Mexico, but still has The Odyssey of the Cricket and perhaps some others.
• Construct is one of the first art/content houses to use VRML (see, for example, their Arc Gallery). Called the "princes of darkness" because of their sometimes moody designs, their creativity and artistic vision have been a continuing force in this medium. Check out their back lot and Stratus gallery.
• Easeweb are website developers that have a VRML browser for their own site.
• Fabric8 has done quite a bit of VRML work, including Do's Dodecahedron. Check their archive.
• Fornax Monitor is a Hungarian design company that's done a good bit of VRML work.
• Geometrek is targeted on advertising in VRML, and has a fine collection of puzzles (including a Sam Lloyd-type puzzle called WagJig) and models.
• Infoplasm is known for its outrageous sense of humor. Don't miss their R-rated (for gratuitous violence and gore) Frosty the Snowman, co-winner of the entertainment award at VRML 98.
• Lunatic Interactive (German site in English, US mirror) is a German content house that specializes in 3D and VRML, and has done such projects as online booking for Starlight Express, a product browser for Sony's digital video camera, and multi-user worlds based on Alice in Wonderland.
• The Mining Company's list of content houses
• No Limits Information Technology is responsible for the Alpentour Stiermark, among others
• Out of the Blue shows ads, navigation and environments and their CD-ROM game in VRML "Familiar Blocks"
• Planet 9 pioneered virtual cities on the net with Virtual SOMA. They have plenty more where that came from.
• Protozoa, originator of Floops, is a content house with superb technologies and a warped sense of humor.
• Radical Group is a Dutch content house that has a large portfolio of both demos and sales in VRML.
• Satelight is a digital media studio in Japan. Be sure to see Wilson Tang's work and essays.
• SeaSeer's strength is in variety, from a satellite-map textured image of Hawaii to pure art VRML worlds to the good old X-29.
• Shout Interactive has done some very exciting blends of texturing and VRML with an artistic voice all their own. Their MOD world won the award for entertainment at VRML 98 and their Lost In Space game was a great tie-in for the movie.
• Viewpoint Datalabs makes models. They have a prominent place in real-time military simulations, and they've provided VRML models to Cosmo Software and Microsoft. They're currently offering a package of 25 free models, most of them available in VRML 97. Make sure you check out LiveArt -- it isn't VRML and it doesn't even import or export VRML, but you're going to love it.
• Virtual Real Estate won a standing ovation at VRML 98's Demo SIG for their schafft:wissen commissioned by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
• The WebPool Syndicate has an extensive VRML site.

VRML Galleries, Collections, and Potpourri

• 3D Design Magazine's VRML Livespace
• Bentley's 3D Worlds generated in MicroStation
• Community Place show-off gallery (Community Place)
• Cyberspace Technologies worlds
• EDS's Unigraphics gallery
• Grafman's VRML Gallery
• Peter Griffith's Experiments with VRML
• Intel's Mediadome has commissioned some of the best VRML out there. They don't seem to have archives, so you'll need to visit pretty regularly.
• Richard Kapuaala (Kahuna)'s worlds and models
• Kinetix's VRML samples from 3DStudio Max
• Matt Leonard's Worlds and Tutorial
• Projects from the course on building 3d virtual environments Matt Lewis teaches at Ohio State University
• Lightscape's gallery - gorgeous colors accomplished by per-vertex coloring
• Angel Lombarte's VRML page
• Ma Luyao's worlds -- check the bridge
• Nendo's gallery
• Neural Signal Processing Group (Denmark)'s VRML models
• John Nikkel (Ragtimer)'s worlds
• Niclas Olofsson's worlds have a wonderful ambiance. Coming soon: sailor world.
• Park Tae-Ha's worlds feature a great variety: games, scenes, and amusement park rides.
• Photomodeler examples
• Andreas Reitemeyer (Kiwano)'s worlds and banner ads
• Markus Roskothen's projects at VRUniverse
• Otavio Santos' worlds (Portugese)
• Greg Seidman's worlds
• Since Silicon Graphics' Cosmo Software subsidiary was bought by Platinum, it's been difficult to find VRML at SGI through their main menus. But give a well-known host an intentionally bogus URL like this one, and you can search for "VRML" on the error page that comes up.
• Roland Smeenk's worlds are very interactive and playful
• Jeff Sonstein's VRMLab features a VNET town square.
• Projects from Michael Wagner's students in advanced computer graphics at Arizona State University
• Stefan Westphal's worlds

And don't neglect

...our VRML examples and VRML Models

Did I leave out a favorite world or get an URL wrong? Has a site died? Let me know.