From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [04.17] Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Status: RO X-Status: Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 04, number 17 Contents: REFS: Final year degree project SPECS: Nintendo powerglove with Mac?? TECH: SpaceBall INFO: Hooking Power Glove to PC INFO: Want to buy somekind of data glove 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: James Brown Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: REFS: Final year degree project Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 18:55:26 +0100 Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK Message-Id: <31B9BE8E.41C67EA6@brunel.ac.uk> Hi, I'm a student studying Engineering, Science and Technology. My main areas are mechatronics, manufacturing and computer programming. For my final year I have to do a dissitation and was wondering if any one has done, or has any ideas, for a dissitaion based on some aspect of Virtual reality. As I am not purely a software engineer so I would be interested in the development of hardware together with software. If you have done something like this, or have any ideas, then please email me as I am at a loss on what to do for my final year disitation. Mark Proctor Brunel University West London Email : be94mdp@brunel.ac.uk [Yes, there are _many_ dissertations on VR! See my "On the Net" http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/elec.html Also, take a look at UNC and NPSNet: UNC: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Info/dissertations.html NPSNET: http://www-npsnet.cs.nps.navy.mil/npsnet/publications.html HITL: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/publications/dissertations.html Nottingham: http://quoll.maneng.nott.ac.uk/Research/virart/general/publicns.html Mike Snow at Virginia Tech: http://hci.ise.vt.edu/~msnow/dissertation.html Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, EVL, Carolina Cruz-Neira: http://www.eecs.uic.edu/~ccruznei/thesis.html MIT Media Lab: Tinsley Galyean http://ic.www.media.mit.edu/icProjects/StoriesTour/Dogmatic/ Wave's World http://wave.www.media.mit.edu/people/wave/PhDThesis/ Rob Kooper's: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Masters/Rob.Kooper/Thesis/ Just to name a few. -T.E.] --------------------------------------- From: Anthony Delduca Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: SPECS: Nintendo powerglove with Mac?? Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:34:25 -0500 Organization: Netcom Canada Message-ID: <31BCA2F1.238C@freenet.npiec.on.ca> Reply-To: adelduca@freenet.npiec.on.ca Hey Anyone know how to set up a Nintendo Powerglove to a Macintosh for VR work? I know it can be done, I read of it months ago....but just picked up a glove at a yard sale for $5!!! hehehe... I'd need a software driver too...I think I had a stuffed file then as well, but trashed it a long time ago. Thanks all. A. --------------------------------------- From: Michael Doerr Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: TECH: SpaceBall Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:38:13 +0200 Organization: cns.mpg.de Message-Id: <31BD2265.167E@cns.mpg.de> Can anybody tell me technical details about a SpaceBall (how to direct an 3D-object on screen) Thanks, Michael [http://www.spacetec.com/MainDisk/WEB_SITE/PRODUCTS/AVENGER/avenger.html] --------------------------------------- From: richardson@gallifrey.ksc.nasa.gov (Richardson, Brian) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Hooking Power Glove to PC Date: 11 Jun 1996 12:31:07 GMT Organization: MDS&DS Message-ID: <4pjoub$aj0@niven.ksc.nasa.gov> Can anyone point me to locations of documentation, source code, etc. that I can use to connect a Power Glove to a PC (Win 3.1, 95, NT) ? I'm also interested in the same for SCO, Linux, and regular UNIX. Thanks in advance ! Brian Richardson McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Kennedy Space Center, FL richardb@tardis.mdcorp.nasa.ksc.gov need resource list for home-grown circuit interfaces for glasses, power glove, etc. any ideas? [Chris Hand has developed a number of good pages: Power Glove Page: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/pg.html Article on Power Glove by Chris: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/pg2.html Chris Hand's Mennelli Box PowerGlove Interface: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/menelli.html Chris' VR Stuff: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/People/cph/vrstuff.html see also Chris' 3D Device support page: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/vrdev-sw.html Other sources to check out: Power Glove FAQ by Eric Townsend: http://www.spies.com/jet/vr/faq-0.3.html Dave Barberi's collection of software: http://sunsite.unc.edu/dbarberi/software/vr/ Sunee PowerGlove site: ftp://sunee.uwaterloo.ca/pub/glove/ Books: Robin Hollands new book: The Virtual Reality Homebrewer's Handbook http://www.shef.ac.uk/~vrmbg/vrhmhb/vrhmhb.html Jacobson, L. (1993). Garage Virtual Reality. Indianapolis, IN: SAMS Publishing. Gradecki, Joe. (1994). The Virtual Reality Construction Kit. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. ------------------------------ From: jhelmine@proffa.cc.tut.fi (Helminen Jari) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Want to buy somekind of data glove Date: 11 Jun 1996 09:20:32 GMT Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Computing Centre Message-ID: <4pjdp0$ind@cc.tut.fi> Hi! Can someone help me? I try to find places where I can order (buy) somekind of data glove. I am interested of the 5th glove, the gyber glove (and allkind of gloves). I need gloves for both hands. Pleace send me email or http addresses from where I can ask those things. [5th Glove (from General Reality): http://www.genreality.com/products.html#glove CyberGlove: http://www.virtex.com/~virtex Paradigm Genesis Glove List: http://www.paragen.com/vr/glove.html Virtual Presence Ltd: http://www.vrweb.com/gloves.html Also take a look at the Glove FAQ: General VR Product information can be found online. I produce a guide to commercial resources: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/comm.html There is also Ian's VR Buying Guide (which is a trip into Netscape Table-land, but worth the effort): http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~feldberg/vr/vrbg.html VR Resources is another good place to surf: http://www.imaginative.com/VResources/ Chris' VR Stuff is also good for Low Cost VR: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/People/cph/vrstuff.html As well as: The Virtual Reality Store: http://www.thevrstore.com/main.htm Virtual Presence (European supplier of VR products): http://www.vrweb.com/ Paradigm Genesis (VR Systems and Components): http://www.garlic.com/vr/ Silicon Graphics also has a very good resource list: http://www.sgi.com/Products/appsdirectory.dir/SolutionIXVirtual_Reality.html -T.E.] ************************************************************ End of Info Booth ************************************************************