From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [04.07] Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Status: RO X-Status: Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 04, number 07 Contents: INFO: VRML questions WHO: info on patent 4,542,291 SPECS: VR interface for PC i need info REFS: Virtual Reality and Television INFO: VR applications for medical training and practice? SPECS: Hacking Virtual Boy INFO: DIS See the Sci.Virtual-Worlds FAQ, posted monthly http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/virtual-worlds/readfirst-faq.html, 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/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: jkidder@spock.ecs.umass.edu (Justin R Kidder) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: VRML questions Date: 15 Feb 1996 17:17:52 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <4fvps0$q8f@risky.ecs.umass.edu> Hi everyone, As a newcomer to the field, I was wondering if someone could give me some references to VRML, containing info such as: What is it? Where do you get it from? What resources are there for it? Are there conversion programs for it (I suppose IGES might be intuitive...) Is there a FAQ for this newgroup? Thank you all very much... Justin Kidder -- jkidder@spock.ecs.umass.edu Automation and Robotics Laboratory University of Massachusetts, Amherst http://www.ecs.umass.edu/mie/labs/arl/people/jkidder/jkidder.html [Best Place to start is at: VRML FAQ: http://www.oki.com/vrml/VRML_FAQ.html VRML Repository: http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml VRML Org: http://www.vrml.org You can also check my page at: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/vrm.html Also the newsgroup, alt.lang.vrml -T.E.] --------------------------------------- From: wainwrig@hugo.rz.fh-ulm.de (Wainwright, Carl Gaststudent Plymouth) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: WHO: info on patent 4,542,291 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:43:10 Organization: Fachhochschule Ulm Lines: 8 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: amla14.lab.fh-ulm.de Summary: Optical flex sensor, by Thomas.G.Zimmerman X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Sender: news@rigel.rz.uni-ulm.de I am looking for information on how to contact this Mr. zimmerman who worked at VPL Research Inc. I have seen scripts mentioning his name but no reference to an email or web page cheers Carl email wainwrig@amla.lab.fh-ulm.de or here on this board. [Zimmerman's home page is: http://physics.www.media.mit.edu/~tz/ T.E.] --------------------------------------- From: fwinther@starnet.unisoft.fr (Fred Sliderman) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: SPECS: VR interface for PC i need info Date: Sat, 04 Mar 95 00:38:25 EST Organization: Têtes Hypotoniques Créatives Message-ID: <4hda98$1t9@s3.iway.fr> Hi, I would like to have all kind of info about VR glasses, datagloves, running on PC. What is the good stuff? What kind of games can runs on this interfaces ? Thanks Fred --------------------------------------- From: private@home.mil.Belgium.EU.net (Billy Bill) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: REFS: Virtual Reality and Television Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 16:19:50 GMT Organization: EUnet Belgium, Leuven, Belgium Lines: 10 Message-ID: <4hf190$npt@news.Belgium.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.75.204.3 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I am doing a thesis about the relashionship of Virtual Reality and Television. If someone has some information of that kind and want to help me whith my work just answer in this Newsgroup. [Take a look at Wojek Furmanski's work at Syracuse: Syracuse University's North-east Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) - Virtual Reality and Televirtuality: Technology Assessment Project -T.E.] --------------------------------------- From: Liang-Wei Kang Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: VR applications for medical training and practice? Date: 5 Mar 1996 04:02:03 GMT Organization: CCL.ITRI Message-ID: <4hgebr$q1i@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> References: <4gvhf9$8mk@nntp5.u.washington.edu> I'm looking for VR applications for medical training and practice. Does anyone know where I can get the information about the available applications? Thank you! Lewis ps. please also send me a copy of your reply to my email address:kang@dcs.ccl.itri.org.tw [See my Medical Applications in VR page: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/medapps.html It's work in progress. Any additions welcome. T.E.] --------------------------------------- From: Lang Johnston Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: VR Device in Home Date: 7 Mar 1996 02:16:52 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (USA) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4hlguk$pma@newstand.syr.edu> hey folks... this is my first time posting to any newsgroup, so bear with me... I'm writing a paper about VR technology (its only 4-5 pages, not too in-depth) and being relatively new to the stuff I was wondering this.. about how feasible is it to have any type of VR device installed in one's home?? what would it be that would be installed?? what I'm really looking for is if there's been any (and if so, how much) drop in cost of VR since 1987 (have some figures from then) and I'm trying to forecast how long it will be until this type of technology will be able to be used on a regular basis by (at least) some people to do stuff like shopping, etc... anyhow, being a college student, my paper is due tomorrow, and I'm just getting started now (even though it might seem bad, I pretty much know what I wanna say, and the prof. insists that we use Courier font.. :) so, any prompt replies would be very much appriciated... thanks in advance!!! -Lang Johnston aljohnst@mailbox.syr.edu --------------------------------------- From: zed@airmail.net (Zed) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: SPECS: Hacking Virtual Boy Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 05:40:34 GMT Organization: Macross Island Research Center Message-ID: <4i32nv$e5f@news-f.iadfw.net> Reply-To: zed@airmail.net Has anyone hacked Virtual Boy? If so, how, and what did you use it for? thanks --zed --- BE BRAVE, NEW WAVE! "I am the story I tell myself." --Greg Wait (z0oey@ix.netcom.com) --------------------------------------- From: Netman Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: DIS Date: 12 Mar 1996 18:38:18 GMT Message-Id: <4i4gaq$jhd@shore.shore.net> Hi, I wonder if anyone can tell me what they know about Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) -- the US military's standard for multi-user, realtime, 3-D computing? Any input on resources, tools vendors, the technology in general (applications, viability, futures, etc.) would be appreciated. Best if responses sent direct to me via email, todd@sterlinghager.com. TIA, Todd Defren [DIS FAQ: gopher://siwg.dra.hmg.gb/00/docs/pap/dis.faq commercial product - VR-link from MaK Technologies at: http://www.mak.com/ -T.E.] ************************************************************ End of Info Booth ***********************************************************