<s>
GopherVR	B-Protocol
is	O
an	O
enhanced	O
Internet	B-Protocol
Gopher	I-Protocol
client	O
that	O
includes	O
a	O
3D	B-Application
visualization	I-Application
tool	O
for	O
viewing	O
resource	O
collections	O
as	O
3D	O
scenes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
authors	O
were	O
interested	O
in	O
how	O
this	O
spatial	O
representation	O
could	O
address	O
the	O
"	O
lost	O
in	O
hyperspace	O
"	O
feeling	O
that	O
people	O
using	O
conventional	O
Gopher	B-Protocol
clients	I-Protocol
sometimes	O
experienced	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1995	O
,	O
the	O
Gopher	B-Protocol
developers	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Minnesota	O
released	O
GopherVR	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Using	O
Gopher+	O
protocol	O
extensions	O
,	O
spatial	O
positions	O
for	O
Gopher	B-Protocol
resources	O
are	O
specified	O
,	O
and	O
GopherVR	B-Protocol
clients	O
combine	O
traditional	O
Gopher	B-Protocol
hierarchy	O
browsing	O
with	O
3D	O
scene	O
navigation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
original	O
version	O
was	O
available	O
for	O
Unix	B-Application
,	O
using	O
Motif	B-Application
and	O
X11	B-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
the	O
classic	B-Application
Mac	I-Application
OS	I-Application
;	O
although	O
incomplete	O
,	O
they	O
were	O
offered	O
as	O
partially	O
functional	O
alpha	O
versions	O
for	O
testing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Godot	O
was	O
another	O
GopherVR	B-Protocol
client	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
McCahill	O
,	O
GopherVR	B-Protocol
's	O
goals	O
included	O
showing	O
the	O
potential	O
of	O
structures	O
that	O
"	O
separate	O
the	O
organization	O
from	O
the	O
content	O
"	O
,	O
so	O
"	O
you	O
could	O
display	O
the	O
organizational	O
structure	O
a	O
bunch	O
of	O
different	O
ways	O
"	O
,	O
which	O
the	O
Web	O
did	O
not	O
have	O
ways	O
of	O
handling	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
time	O
GopherVR	B-Protocol
became	O
available	O
,	O
the	O
World	O
Wide	O
Web	O
had	O
recently	O
been	O
growing	O
,	O
and	O
Gopher	B-Protocol
was	O
already	O
less	O
commonly	O
used	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
packages	O
for	O
GopherVR	B-Protocol
were	O
stored	O
on	O
the	O
UMN	O
Boombox	O
FTP	B-Protocol
server	O
,	O
and	O
(	O
probably	O
due	O
to	O
a	O
defective	O
backup	O
and	O
restore	O
)	O
virtually	O
all	O
Gopher	B-Protocol
software	O
on	O
this	O
server	O
over	O
96k	O
in	O
length	O
had	O
become	O
corrupted	O
,	O
resulting	O
in	O
the	O
loss	O
of	O
all	O
publicly	O
available	O
copies	O
of	O
the	O
source	O
code	O
until	O
it	O
was	O
rediscovered	O
and	O
made	O
available	O
by	O
Mark	O
McCahill	O
in	O
June	O
2008	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2009	O
,	O
GopherVR	B-Protocol
was	O
re-released	O
by	O
Cameron	O
Kaiser	O
in	O
an	O
updated	O
form	O
for	O
Mac	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
X	I-Operating_System
,	O
Linux	B-Application
and	O
other	O
platforms	O
,	O
but	O
is	O
still	O
considered	O
incomplete	O
.	O
</s>
