From montefus@dsi.unimi.it Sat Mar 25 15:58:25 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA28896; Sat, 25 Mar 95 15:58:25 -0800 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA07638; Sat, 25 Mar 95 15:58:25 -0800 Received: by hitl.hitl.washington.edu; id AA24159; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 15:54:05 -0800 Received: from hp4.sm.dsi.unimi.it by ghost.dsi.unimi.it with SMTP id AA22113 (5.65+/IDA-1.3.5 for scivw@hitl.washington.edu); Sun, 26 Mar 95 00:58:13 +0100 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 95 00:58:13 +0100 X-Sender: montefus@ghost.dsi.unimi.it Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: stuart@NYNEXST.COM, scivw@hitl.washington.edu From: montefus@dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco) Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: Motion Platform Vendors Status: OR Rory Stuart wrote: >I've never seriously looked at motion platforms and their >vendors. Now I have a customer who is interested in using >a motion platform as part of a VR system. "Pure" motion bases manufacturers: Ride & Show Engineering 279 E.Arrow Highway San Dimas, CA 91773-3338 USA Tel: (909) 592-5575 Fax: (909) 599-9837 those might have changed address, recently, I don't konw... Cine-Motion 29 High Street Hampton Wick Kingston Upon Thames Surrey KT1 4D4 UK Tel: +44 (0)81 8435223 Fax: +44 (0)81 9439991 Denne Development Ltd. Cedar Trade Park Ferndown Industrial Estate Wimborne Dorset BH21 7SB UK Tel: +44 (0)202 861661 Fax: +44 (0)202 861233 McFadden Systems Inc. 11835 East Smith Avenue Santa Fe, CA 90670 USA Tel: (310) 948-4414 Fax: (310) 948-1291 While I do know that the following companies integrate motion systems in their products, I am not sure if they actually build them by themseves, or if they sell them separately, anyway: Iwerks Entertainment, Inc. 4340 West Valerio Street Burbank, CA 91505 USA Tel: (818) 841-7766 Fax: (818) 841-7847 Ridefilm Corp. (Douglas Trumbull's company, subsidiary of the Imax Corp) 200 Pleasant Street South Lee, MA 01260 USA Tel: (413) 637-0500 Fax: (413) 637-1960 actually I've also another address for them: Ridefilm Theaters Corp. Riverview Road Lenox, MA 01240 USA Tel: (413) 637-1230 Fax: (413) 637-1960 if you check out which is correct and which is not, let me know, ok? :) Showscan Corp. 3939 Landmark Street Culver City, CA 90232-2315 USA Tel: (310) 558-0150 Fax: (310) 559-7984 Greystone Technology, Inc. 15010 Avenue of Science, Suite 200 San Diego, CA 92128 USA Tel: (619) 675-7800 Fax: (619) 675-7808 their latest LBE platform, VR Mercury, is a personal bike-like simulator mounted on a motion platform Chameleon 11 Canal Center Plaza Alexandria, VA 22314 USA Tel: (703) 684-8005 Fax: (703) 684-8102 they have a very particular motion system which comprises rotating arms with capsules at their ends. by rotating in every direction the capsule, they use the centrifugue force to simulate accellerations in almost every direction. Interactive Simulations, Inc. 511 King Street, Suite 130 Toronto, Ontario M5V 2Z4 Canada Tel: (416) 597-1585 Fax: (416) 597-0350 5 cents, please! :) diego