From: mrh@camcon.co.uk (Mark Hughes)
Subject: At the wheel of a virtual car
Date: 15 Jan 92 10:14:54 GMT
Organization: Cambridge Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, UK



Here is a quote from a short article in on the technology page of
the Financial Times, Jan 10, 1992 with the title given in the subject
line above:

	The company [NEC] has written software for the design of a
	car body which, when goggles are donned, appears in
	three-dimensional space on a high definition computer screen.
	The parts of the car can be manipulated and reshaped by moving
	hands inside gloves attached to sensors. On the screen, what
	appear to be disembodied gloves actually move the objects about.

This appears to be only a partial VR approach (i.e. the designer sees
3-d effect but not using eyephones) but sounds like an interesting
application to me. The article goes on to say that several engineers
can work on different parts of the same design using networked
workstations, but that the system is currently primitive and several
years away from commercial application.

Does anyone have more information on this?

Mark

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