It is available for PCs, Macs, and SGIs as a plug-in to Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Also note that CosmoPlayer was developed a couple years ago and has not been updated. It has some bugs that we will discuss in Step 4. Even with these caveats, we feel it is the best VRML browser plug-in. Exploring space in 3-D is unfamiliar to most everybody.
Intergalactic space has no floors, walls, or ceilings.
It will get you up and running with the least amount of pain. Once you've installed a VRML browser plug-in and have learned how to use it, you are ready to explore the local universe. Our Milky Way Galaxy is located at the origin of the coordinate axes, since it is our reference point. After the file has been downloaded to your computer, you can expect it to take anywhere from 15 seconds to a couple minutes to load the world and the first graphics to appear on the screen. The above link is to a compressed version of the VRML world.