From scivw@u.washington.edu Wed Oct 6 16:51:32 1993 From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [03.21] Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Status: RO X-Status: ############################################ ### Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest ### ### volume 03, number 21 ### ############################################ Contents: REFS: PLG files for VR386 INFO: General Virtual reality stuff REFS: Names of Companies EDUC: Studies on Virtual R. INFO: Trackers See the Sci.Virtual-Worlds Meta-FAQ, posted monthly and available by anonymous ftp (ftp.u.washington.edu:/public/virtual-worlds/Meta-FAQ), for more details on the organization of this newsgroup. __ ______________ __ _^_ / /_/ / _/_ __/ / ___ _/ / <(===)> Toni Emerson / __ // / / / / /__/ _ `/ _ \ \|/ Moderator, sci.virtual-worlds /_/ /_/___/ /_/ /____/\_,_/_.__/ H ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marco@berlin.snafu.de (Marco Grubert) Subject: REFS: PLG files for VR386 Organization: Unlimited Surprise Systems, Berlin Hello, please point me to an FTP site where I can find PLG or WLD files for Rend386 / VR386. Thank you, Marco Grubert ------------------------------ From: mminer@ednet1.osl.or.gov (Matthew R. Miner) Subject: INFO: General Virtual reality stuff Message-Id: <1995Jun4.182913.20697@osl.or.gov> Sender: usenet@ednet1.osl.or.gov Organization: Oregon ED-Net To anybody who reads this: Please send me anything you have on virtual reality or a realated or a related subject. Thank You Mike ------------------------------ From: Christian Soldier Subject: REFS: Names of Companies Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 11:42:48 -0400 (EDT) Organization: Gateway Communications Inc. I am trying to get in touch with companies or organizations which develop VR systems; can anyone give me some names? Thanx. ------------------------------ From: Moncada Wong Carlos Subject: EDUC: Studies on Virtual R. Hello! I would really appreciate if anybody can give me some information about universities (in any country) which offer graduate programs on V.R. I am particularly interested in knowing what programs do they offer and what are they currently doing on this field. Thank you very much to anybody that can help me. My email address is: m152701@proffa.cc.tut.fi ------------------------------ From: Christian Soldier Subject: INFO: Trackers Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 07:18:34 -0400 (EDT) Organization: Gateway Communications Inc. Lines: 3 Message-Id: Nntp-Posting-Host: gatecoms.gatecom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO X-Status: A Can anyone tell me how trackers work, i.e. how they determine movement, and how they communicate it to the computer port? Thanx. [Meyer, K., Applewhite, H. L. and Biocca, F. A. (1992). A Survey of Position-Trackers. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. 1 (2), 173-200. Bhatnagar, D. K. (1993). Position Trackers for Head Mounted Display Systems: A Survey. UNC Technical Report No. TR93-010. [Online: ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/technical-reports/]. Chapel Hill, NC: Dept. of Computer Science, University of North Carolina. -T.E.] ************************************************************ End of InfoBooth Digest ************************************************************