Project Sequoia 2000, a collaboration between Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and the University of California, assembles a 10-terabyte database to support Earth Science research.

Project Sequoia 2000 developed a next-generation visualization system called Tecate to help Earth scientists navigate through their data and interact with it new ways, including virtual reality tools. The project used both commercially available products and experimental devices for programming and navigating through a virtual world. Among its experimental devices was a “cyber glove” that allowed the user to program responses to certain hand movements for specific actions; a “space ball”, a spherical joy stick for maneuvering through virtual space; and “bats” , a term derived from a flying mouse, that incorporates a tracker with a button box to display information and execute pre-programmed commands.