Using the in-line graphics method of surrogate travel the user is presented with a graphic that visualizes a first person point of view (POV) in the middle of a Mosaic page. In addition to the graphic the page contains buttons which allow the user to control movement through the space. When a button is selected the user "moves" through the space and the graphics is updated.
FIGURE 1. In-line Image Surrogate Travel and Mosaic (actual demo)
In the initial version of this experiment each scene was hand coded into a separate HTML page (clearly a hack). Subsequent to this a more extensive version allowing more complete travel through the room was developed by Allen Sun called the Virtual Corridor. In this version the users movement commands interact with a cgi-bin command which computes the correct image to use and automatically provides the linking.
