Apple Computer's QuickTime VR format allows you to experience the Electronic Cafe on your Macintosh or PC, using virtual reality technology. The ECI world headquarters, located in Santa Monica, California, appears in three virtual reality "scenes". The QuickTime VR player allows the user to enter a scene, look up and down, turn around, and zoom in and out.

	Click image to see QuickTime navagatible movie. ECI's cafe area (1995)
	Click image to see QuickTime navagatible movie. ECI's performance and staging area (1995)
	Click image to see QuickTime navagatible movie. One of ECI's technology zones (1995)

In 1967 the newly formed LA VRML Users Group announced plans to produce its first public event. In the spirit of community that launched VRML as an emerging global medium in the last two years, the VRML Barn Raising of ECI-HQ brought together most of Southern California's top VRML companies, designers, and authoring tools, for a unique, two-day weekend of VRML 2.0 production, experimentation, and collaborative creation. ECI's physical archect, some of its people, and objects were digitized, and rendered onto the internet so that visitors and groups could virtualy visit and walk through a functional 3-D simulation of its environment.

Unfortunitly, the VRML version of ECI-HQ is not viewable for this exhibition. However, we offer these additional QuickTime VR views of the ECI BarnRaising event.

	Click image to see QuickTime navagatible movie. The VRML BarnRaising event was a three day workshop where students and professionals learned while helping create different components of the online VRML version of ECI-HQ. (1997)
	Click image to see QuickTime navagatible movie. Workshop attendees advanced from project phase to project phase in order to gain a better understanding of how to start and finish a VRML project.
	Click image to see QuickTime navagatible movie. In this area attendees received the fundamentals prior to moving on to assist with production tasks.

See the credits for this event on the 1997 ECI Highlights