Journal:    Digital News & Review  August 29, 1994 v11 n16 p3(1)
Title:     Five Alphas and a wedding.
             (virtual reality wedding)
Author:    Lawton, Stephen
Abstract:  Hugh Jo and Monika Liston were married in a virtual reality
           wedding that was powered by five DEC DECpc AXP 3000 600
           systems. The wedding is believed to the first to occur in
           cyberspace and also had the first virtual guest; an editor for
           Bride Magazine attended the festivities via an AT&T
           videophone. Separate monitors showed attendees the views of
           the bride and the groom. A nine-screen matrix provided both
           participants' views. The views included the surrounding images
           and landscape of the virtual reality realm of the Lost City of
           Atlantis. Three Kubota Graphics Corp 3-D Photographic
           accelerated Model 620s were connected to the Alphas through a
           Turbochannel link. Problems with limited systems memory and
           incorrectly partitioned hard disks caused the system to run
           out of swap space for the images and the wedding ended
           abruptly.