From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [03.35] Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Status: RO X-Status: Archive-name: Digests/InfoBooth-3.35 Posting-frequency: weekly Last-modified: Wednesday, October 23, 1995 Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 03, number 35 Contents: REFS: Help with Power Glove REFS: TalkingGlove INFO: VRML, Marc Pesce & WorldView SPECS: Help-Mattel Powerglove interface needed INFO: Shareware VRML Browser INFO: 2morrosw INFO: Budget VR for a Beginner REFS: Force feedback - where would you look for info on that... INFO: n-dimensions See the Sci.Virtual-Worlds FAQs, posted monthly and available by anonymous ftp -- URL: ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu:/pub/scivw/faq/readfirst-faq for more details on the organization of this newsgroup. There is also a home page for the ftp site: URL: ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu/pub/scivw/virtual-worlds/WWW/scivw.html This Digest is archived at the sci.virtual-worlds archive site, URL: ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu/pub/scivw/Digests/ Toni Emerson Moderator, sci.virtual-worlds http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/diderot ---------------------------------START OF DIGEST------------------------------ From: dannyyoo@ix.netcom.com (Danny Yoo) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: REFS: Help with Power Glove Organization: Netcom I'm doing a science project involving a power glove and sign language. Being inexperienced with internet research, I am clueless to where I should begin. I'd like information about converting a power glove to PC use, ways to read the information off the glove. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! --------------------------------------- From: lwb@ee.edinburgh.ac.uk (L W\(Bill\) Buchan) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: REFS: TalkingGlove Organization: The University of Edinburgh, Department of Electrical Engineering Message-ID: <446l75$2b7@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> I am looking for information about James Kramer's Talking Glove system for speech-synthesis of American Sign Language. Are there any journal papers about this? Is it available as a product? If so, what is the cost, specs. etc.? Thanks, Bill. --Bill Buchan-------------------(Bill.Buchan@ee.ed.ac.uk)-- ISG, Dept. Electrical Engineering Tel. +44 (0)131 650 5665 The University of Edinburgh Fax. +44 (0)131 650 6554 --Edinburgh, Scotland EH9 3JL--(http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~lwb)-- "I don't have time for this, I have chicken entrails to read" [For information about Kramer, see the WWW pages at "DesignSpace" at Stanford University http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/DesignSpace/home.html TalkingGlove (VSEL) (J. F. Kramer & L. Leifer) - an assistive communication device for non-speaking deaf individuals, which recognizes American Sign Language (ASL) finger-spelling to generate text or synthesized speech. Core to the TalkingGlove system is an instrumented glove and neural-net algorithm for mapping dynamic hand formations into a digital command stream. A CDR spinoff enterprise, Virtual Technologies, developed the patented technology into the Virtex CyberGlove (TM) hand instrumentation system. http://cdr.stanford.edu/html/telepresence/VSEL.html#TalkingGlove You might also want to take a look at his "TeleSign" project: TeleSign (VSEL) (W. Chapin, C. Haas, J. Kramer, L. Leifer, & E. Macken) - a collaborative design effort between CDR and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, leveraged from the TalkingGlove and VirtualHand projects to develop a system for visual expression and manual communication. The TeleSign system empowers two remote individuals to communicate visible gestures through a shared virtual environment across standard low-bandwidth telephone channels. --------------------------------------- From: Elisabeth Thomas <100673.3074@CompuServe.COM> Subject: 4th Wave Hi! Can somebody help me find the organization "4th Wave"? Otherwise, I would be grateful if anyone could provide information about where to find market researches on computer games.. On beforhand; THANKS! Send me an e-mail if you have anything: Elisabeth Thomas e-mail: 100673,3074@compuserve.com [4th Wave: Box 6547 Alexandria, VA 22306 703-360-4800 Fax: 703-360-2311 d350@applelink.apple.com Contact: John Latta Also, my IRVR has a segment on market researches in VR: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/irvr/ -T.E.] --------------------------------------- From: kfg@computize.com (Kyle F. Gannon) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds,sci.virtual-worlds.apps Subject: INFO: VRML, Marc Pesce & WorldView Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 19:11:42 Organization: Computize Message-ID: Does anyone have information in regards to: Virtual Reality Markup Language? Marc Pesce's e-mail address? And his Worldview? I can't seem to find a thing and would appreciate an e-mail reply on any ftp/web site that would allow me to get more information or download some info/source on the above or people working on similar html enhancements. Appreciated greatly, kfg@computize.com --------------------------------------- From: HVGP76A@prodigy.com (Scott Gagnon) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: SPECS: Help-Mattel Powerglove interface needed Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY Can anybody provide me with information on how I can get a converter to use my Nintendo Powerglove with my home PC? And is there software I can buy to use to it's potential? Any help is appreciated, Thanks... SCOTT GAGNON HVGP76A@prodigy.com --------------------------------------- From: "J.C.KENNEDY" Subject: INFO: Shareware VRML Browser Date: 9 Oct 1995 10:35:37 GMT Organization: The University of Hull, UK Message-ID: <45attp$jr@wimbledon.dcs.hull.ac.uk> This article has expired on my news server. Could someone please e-mail me or post the original article again TIA Jon [ Except from August 8th posting by : avatarp@well.sf.ca.us (Peter Rothman) [...] DIVE LABORATORIES, INC. 2501 Mission Street Santa Cruz CA 95060 408-469-1720 408-469-1722 FAX e-mail: info@divelabs.com Web Site: http://www.divelabs.com DIVE Labs Demonstrates Virtual Reality Over the Internet Shareware VRML Browser Supports Head Mounted Displays and Advanced Graphics Accelerators For Immediate Release Monday, August 7 1995 Contact: Peter Rothman DIVE Laboratories, Inc. 408-469-1720 [...] According to Peter Rothman, President of DIVE Laboratories, "the beta version of the VRML Browser will be made available free of charge from DIVE Labs World Wide Web site (http://www.divelabs.com) and bundled with a commercial version of DIVE Labs AmberGL virtual world development environment. A commercial version of the browser will be available directly from DIVE Labs and from select retailers for less than twenty five dollars." Unlike other existing VRML Browsers, the Amber Browser supports a true immersive virtual reality capability using Virtual I/O's i-glasses and DIVE Labs server software. [...] The Amber Browser was completely developed using DIVE Labs' AmberGL software, a virtual environment development system for OpenGL platforms, originally developed for high end military simulations. AmberGL is a fully featured virtual environment development system which currently supports OpenGL under Windows NT, GL under IRIX, and a real-time server implementation. AmberGL will be made available in a shareware version from DIVE Labs Web site starting September 1st 1995. Commercial versions will be available direct from DIVE Labs and from retail outlets for less than $200. [...] --------------------------------------- From: Christopher Norris Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL Subject: INFO: 2morrosw To: Multiple recipients of list VIRTU-L Does anyone have a shareware copy of 2morrow package they could send me or the www site for 2-morrow incorporated's www site... ---christopher norris "VR, LIKE THE MIND, IS LIMITED ONLY BY SMALL THINKING..... For worlds, parts, systems(used and new), software, and VR equipment call (205) 366-9700. Christopher Norris ATS COMPUTER SYSTEMS WWW PaGe (http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~cnorris/) 813 22nd Avenue Suite 1-B, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 --------------------------------------- From: Adrian Gaylard Subject: INFO: Budget VR for a Beginner Organization: British Rail Research Hi, I'm looking for cheap PC based VR software to get us started in looking at applications of VR in our technical area. Could anyone offer me some suitable suggestions? I have 486 and Pentium machines available as well as an aging SGI Iris (4D/35 TG) Workstation. Thanks Adrian Adrian Gaylard , Aerodynamics Team BR Research, Derby, UK . Tel: +44 1332 263425 / Fax: +44 1332 264913 e-mail: apg@brraero.demon.co.uk --------------------------------------- From: Frank Vestboe Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: REFS: Force feedback - where would you look for info on that... Organization: Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield Where would you look for information on force feedback if you were an engineering student and wanted to do a project on the matter? If you can think of something, please mail me a short note ok? - Frank --------------------------------------- From: "Craig R. Clark" Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: n-dimensions Organization: MHVNet, the Mid Hudson Valley's Internet connection Message-Id: <308043A4.44FC@mhv.net> Is a virtual reality simulator merely simulating other dimensions, or will there be an actual entry to a real dimension in physical or neoplatonic space? ************************************************************ End of InfoBooth Digest ************************************************************