Appearances

19 February 2003

Tim Lenoir, "Fashioning the Military-Entertainment Complex," in Correspondence, an International Review of Culture & Society, Publisher: the Council on Foreign Relations, Issue No. 10, Winter 2002-2003, pp. 14-16.

14 October 2002: Newsweek, "Full Metal Joystick," by Trent Gegax.

4 Oct 2002: Salon.com, "Weapons of Mass Distraction," by James Au.

27 September & 17 September 2002: Summit & Press Conference on the Use of Advanced Technologies in Education and Training, US Department of Commerce, "2020 Visions" document and press coverage from those events are here.

20 August 2002: Monterey County Herald, "Navy School Computer Program is Virtual Hit,"by Kevin Howe.

22 May - July 2002: Electronic Entertainment Exposition coverage of the announcement of America's Army is here.

22 May 2002: La Times Front Page on Opening Day of E3, Only E3 Story There, "Army's New Message to Young Recruits: Uncle Sim Wants You," by Alex Pham.

16 April 2002: ABC 7 News, KGO, "Hope Against Terrorism," Katarina Rusk.

December 5, 2001: Gannett News. "Navy plans game-like terrorism simulator," by Greg Wright, in USAToday, Delaware News Journal, and Detroit News.

November 25, 2001: The MOVES Institute on Fox News, November 2001, video.

November 1, 2001: LA Times, Los Angeles, CA. Feature article by Karen Kaplan, "Sims Take on Al Qaeda," describing MOVES army games as anti-terrorist tool. Includes screenshot of typical game.

October 5, 2001: Online Athens, University of Georgia webzine, Athens, Georgia. Article on "Virtual Vaudeville," a theatrical history project simulating live, interactive vaudeville performances.

September 2, 2001: Monterey Peninsula Herald reporting on the MOVES Institute Open House. High Res pdf Low Res pdf.

Baer, Leslie and Zyda, Michael "When Battlefield Technology Comes Home," on MediaVision show FutureWatch, 28 January 1998. Play me the RealAudio!

Interview on National Public Radio, Weekend Edition All Things Considered, 27 September 1997. Topic: NRC CSTB report Modeling & Simulation: Linking Entertainment & Defense.

Zyda, M., and Zyda, F., "NPSNET-IV: Inserting the Human into the Networked Synthetic Environment," SIGGRAPH Video Review, Issue 124, Entry 16, SIGGRAPH 97, Los Angeles, California, 3 - 9 August 1997. Show me the video!

"NPSNET Research Group Dismounted Infantry VR Demo at AUSA '96" at the 13 - 16 October 1996, Association for the United States Army Conference, Washington, DC.

"NPSNET Research Group Dismounted Infantry VR Demo at AUSA '95" at the 16 - 18 October 1995, Association for the United States Army Conference, Washington, DC.

Macedonia, Michael R., Brutzman, Donald P., Zyda, Michael J., Pratt, David R., Barham, Paul T., Falby, John and Locke, John "NPSNET: A Multi-Player 3D Virtual Environment Over the Internet," in the Video Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 9 - 12 April 1995, Monterey, California.

Goldblum, Jeff "Virtual Reality," on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's show FutureQuest. Piece contains interviews with Michael Zyda, 29 November 1994.

"NPSNET Research Group Demonstrates Virtual Reality for Infantry Soldiers and Combat Medicine" at the 15 - 19 October 1994, Association for the United States Army Conference, Washington, DC.

"NPSNET-DI: Inserting an Infantryman into the Networked Synthetic Environment" appeared at the 1994 Individual Combatant Modeling and Simulation Symposium, Ft. Benning, Georgia, 15 February, 1994. The NPSNET-DI system allowed infantrymen to interact in a virtual environment. Participants were able to fire weapons, run, assume a prone position and communicate with hand and arm signals.

Pratt, David R., Zyda, Michael J,. Falby, John S., Amburn, Philip, and Stytz, Marty "NPSNET and AFIT-HOTAS: Interconnecting Hetereogeneously Developed Virtual Environments," demonstrated in the Tomorrow's Realities Gallery, SIGGRAPH '93, Anaheim, 1 Aug - 6 Aug 1993. The presentation at SIGGRAPH was a live demonstration showing the NPSNET system running networked over five IRIS workstations, with a T-1 connection to NRAD, San Diego, AFIT, Ohio, NPS, Monterey, and ARPA Warbreaker Facility in Arlington. 65 players were interconnected using the Defense Simulation Internet during this demonstration. This was a juried/reviewed gallery. A short paper was published on this exhibit (see below).

Ruiz, Dina "Central Coast Virtual Reality," 8 May 1992 and 1993. The video segment shows NPSNET-2/3/4 in an interview with Mike Zyda.

Zyda, Michael J. and Pratt, David R. "NPSNET: LHD-1 Landing Script," on ACM SIGGRAPH Video Review, Vol. 70, July 1992, entitled "Visualization Software: The State of the Art,". The video segment shows a brief clip of NPSNET animating the landing of an LHD-1.

Zyda, Michael J. and Pratt, David R. "NPSNET: A 3D Visual Simulator for Virtual World Exploration and Experience," demonstrated in the Tomorrow's Realities Gallery, SIGGRAPH '91, Las Vegas, 28 Jul - 2 Aug 1991. The presentation at SIGGRAPH was a live demonstration showing the NPSNET system running networked over three IRIS workstations. This was a juried/reviewed gallery. An abstract and short paper were published on this exhibit (see below).

Zyda, Michael J. and Pratt, David "Zydaville," on ACM SIGGRAPH Video Review, Vol. 60, August 1990, entitled "HDTV & The Quest for Virtual Reality". The video segment shows our NPSNET system and a brief interview of Professor Zyda.