From: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters)
Subject: APP: March _Model Railroader_
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1992 17:01:05 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University



There is an article in the March MODEL RAILROADER which discusses the 
application of VR to model railroading, combining VR and Telepresence.

It's not a complex article, more of "Here's what you might be able to do
sometime soon" article.  If for nothing else, it has good entertainment value,
and shows a "possible market" for low end (i.e. cheap) VR.

Basically, the idea put forth is to overlay VR generated animation and sound 
on top of video picked up by a camera within the loco. (We (railroaders)
already have a b/w video system which transmits via the rails!)  The user
runs the train from a virtual cab.




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Coyt D. Watters                              cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Oh I like MUMPS, everything's a string.  Oh I like MUMPS, math's done wrong.
Oh I like MUMPS, DATA as CODE as DATA as CODE as... is a lot of fun.
Oh I like MUMPS, passing an indirect variable reference as a parameter is ok.