Several Masters theses used VEOS to examine aspects of the virtual environment. The papers that follow refer to the construction and testing of VEOS itself, under the leadership of Geoff Coco.

Geoff Coco's thesis is:

Max Minkoff's thesis is on Mercury, which he codesigned with Andy MacDonald. Mercury began as a virtual body interface built to improve processing speeds. It integrated the virtual and physiological models of the user into a participant system that mediated sensing/display suites and VEOS. Mercury incorporated the FERN entity manager and an interface to world applications. The internal entity database connected sensor and renderer driver software with attribute and sensor processes used by FERN entities.