Bernie Roehl

Bernie Roehl is the senior software developer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where he's been since 1981. His areas of expertise include virtual reality technology, VRML, Java and multi-user environments on the Internet. He is probably best known in VR circles for REND386 and AVRIL, free VR software packages that are still in widespread use by hobbyists. REND386 won the 1995 Meckler award for outstanding software achievement. Bernie also designed the curriculum for one of the first community college programmes in VR, for New Brunswick Community College.

Bernie is the author of several books on VR, including "Virtual Reality Creations" and "Playing God: Creating Virtual Worlds". He also co-authored Que's "Special Edition: Using VRML", and has written chapters on VRML for several other books. He is also the co-author of "Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java".

He currently has his own monthly column in VR News. He has previously written for VR World, VR Special Report, VRML Developer's Journal, CyberEdge Journal, and VRMLSite. He has also written individual articles for Real Time Graphics, Iris Universe, IEEE Spectrum, Computer Graphics and Applications, and Computer Graphics World.

In addition to his writing, Bernie is an active participant in numerous online discussions of VR and VRML. He is the co-founder of the VRML Humanoid Animation Working Group.

Bernie is also a popular speaker on VR and VRML, and can be found at various conferences throughout the year.

When he's not working with VR and VRML, Bernie spends his time doing various types of interactive theatre including improv comedy and dinner theatre murder mysteries.

Bernie's home page is http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~broehl, and his email address is broehl@ece.uwaterloo.ca.