From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [03.34] Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Status: RO X-Status: Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 03, number 34 Contents: INFO: Cyberworlds REFS: NASA AMES VIEW Project (1989!) INFO: Biocontrol, biosensors REFS: Multimedia and VR 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. There is also a home page for the ftp site: URL: ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/virtual-worlds/WWW/scivw.html This Digest is archived at the sci.virtual-worlds archive site, URL: ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/virtual-worlds/Digests/ Toni Emerson Moderator, sci.virtual-worlds http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/diderot ---------------------------------START OF DIGEST------------------------------ From: muzaher.ulhaque@ukonline.co.uk Subject: INFO: Cyberworlds Date: 18 Sep 1995 22:25:33 GMT Organization: UK Online Lines: 5 Message-ID: <43krkt$a99@bell.ukonline.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: turing.ukonline.co.uk WHERE CAN I FIND INTERNET RELAY CHAT NAD HOW? I AM ALSO LOOKINGFOR SOME CYBERWORLDS. I am new to this net malarky. Thanks --------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:03:22 +0100 From: ROY RUDDLE Subject: REFS: NASA AMES VIEW Project (1989!) This is their Virtual ENvironment Workstation, presented as part of a SIGGRAPH '89 course by Scott Fisher. Does anyone either: a) know where Scott hangs out now, or can b) point me to a more easily available reference for this project thanks roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roy Ruddle, Principal Researcher | School of Psychology Tel: 01222 874523 (direct) | University of Wales College of Cardiff 01222 874007 (messages) | PO Box 901 Fax: 01222 874858 | Cardiff CF1 3YG Email: Ruddle@CARDIFF.AC.UK | UK [Scott Fisher (Telepresence Research http://www.portola.com/PEOPLE/SFISHER/sfisher.html) has a WWW page at: http://www.portola.com/PEOPLE/SFISHER/sfisher.html He has a publications list there. Below are some citations "lifted" from my VITB (Virtual Interface Technology Bibligraphy): Fisher, S. S., McGreevy, M., Humphries, J. and Robinett, W. (1986). Virtual Environment Display System. In Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Interactive 3-D Graphics. New York, NY: ACM. Fisher, S. S., McGreevy, M., Humphries, J. and Robinett, W. (1986). Virtual Workstation: A Multimodal, Stereoscopic Display Environment. In Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 726. Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision. (pp. 517-522). Bellingham, WA: SPIE. Fisher, S. S., McGreevy, M., Humphries, J. and Robinett, W. (1987). Virtual Interface Environment for Telepresence Applications. In J. D. Berger (Ed.) Proceedings of International Topical Meeting on Remote Systems and Robotics in Hostile Environments. (pp. x-y). La Grange Park, ILL: American Nuclear Society. Fisher, S., Jacoby, R., Byrson, S., Stone, P., McDowall, I., Bolas, M., Dasaro, D., Wenzel, E. and Coler, C. D. (1991). The Ames Virtual Environment Workstation: Implementation Issues and Requirements. Human-Machine Interfaces for Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (Available through NTIS, ADA2407161XSP). (pp. 20-24). Washington, DC: NASA. -T.E.] --------------------------------------- From: figue@thomson-lcr.fr (Jean Figue) Subject: INFO: Biocontrol, biosensors Message-ID: Organization: Thomson-CSF, Laboratoire Central de Recherches, Orsay, France Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:35:54 GMT Jean FIGUE Central Research Labs. Domaine de Corbeville 91 404 ORSAY Cedex. figue@lcr.thomson.fr I am looking for postal and possibly e-mail address of the company 'Biocontrol'. Additionnaly, I am lloking for adresses of company providing biosensors. Thanks to anyone who could help. Jean FIGUE. [Biocontrol Systems, Inc. 430 Cowper Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Tel: 415-329-8494 Fax: 415-329-8498 -T.E.] --------------------------------------- From: Yelema A Desseta Subject: REFS: Multimedia and VR Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:06:27 -0400 Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Message-ID: Currently I am doing research on Visibility study on multimedia and VR. Could any one give me information on relevent literature for review? I appreciate your help. yelema@wpi.wpi.edu Thanks ************************************************************ End of InfoBooth Digest ************************************************************