From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [04.15] Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Status: RO X-Status: Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 04, number 15 Contents: INFO: VR in the Future REFS: Getting started, any suggestions? INFO: Suggest a Journal for Force-feedback INFO: Cheap VR glasses? 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------------------------------ Message-ID: <31A97CE8.2A33@netspace.net.au> Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 20:59:04 +1100 From: Paul Murie Subject: INFO: VR in the Future References: <4o2389$83s@nntp5.u.washington.edu> Hello I'm doing a project on Virtual Reality and I was wondering if you have any information on 'what will VR be like in the future'. Please reply Thanks for your time Paul --------------------------------------- From: Kevin Bruce Freeman Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: REFS: Getting started, any suggestions? Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 22:04:08 -0400 Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Message-ID: I am and have been very intersted in VR for quite a while...i ahve been following the news group and doing some reading, but quite honestly there is so much I am not sure quite where to begin. If you could help give me some suggestion I would appreciate it greatly....and to kind of give you an idea at what level I would like to work...well, I don't want to be just a user, I would like to be a creater. Things like good gloves that won/'t hold me back and a good recommendation on HMD would help alot. In addition I know that I am goin to have to upgrade my computer, so how muych ram? accelerator board? Most important I need stuff that isn't really going to limit me. I understand that there really isn't a way to have it all, but I definitely need something that will let me grow as I learn. As, far as buidget is concerned, well I am a student and don't have tons of mone, but if its needed I will find a way. Thanks in advance. Kevin --------------------------------------- From: impellus@ames.ucsd.edu (Tom Impelluso) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Suggest a Journal for Force-feedback Date: 29 May 1996 22:37:03 GMT Organization: UC San Diego, AMES Department Message-Id: <4oijif$jgu@soenews.ucsd.edu> Hi all I am new to VR but I was able to give a nice presentation in force-feedback virtual reality. Basically, I integrated: 1) Two haptic devices 2) Massively Parallel Computers 3) Finite Element Methods (for physically based Material deformation) 4) High speed network 5) CAVE display So that two people could "obtain tactile feedback" (I've learned to stop saying "feel each other") over the internet, and observe a material deform under mutual action. Could someone suggest a respected VR journal to which I could submit an article? The article will be a description of things done, and difficulties, and suggestions. Thanks, Tom --------------------------------------- From: Ari.Huttunen@lmf.ericsson.se (Ari Juhani Huttunen) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Cheap VR glasses? Date: 30 May 1996 12:43:43 GMT Organization: Oy L M Ericsson Ab Message-Id: <4ok55v$2v1@lmfpub.lmf.ericsson.se> Are there cheap VR glasses that can also measure the movement of your head? How much would they cost? Ari ************************************************************ End of Info Booth ************************************************************