From: moberg@nosc.mil (Vic Moberg)
Subject: Re: TECH: Virtual worlds with alternative physics and/or
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 02:17:25 GMT
Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA



In the Feb. '96 issue of Photonics Spectra magazine is a short article
on a $400k program at U. N. Carolina at Chapel Hill to interface a
scanning probe microscope (which can image the location of individual
atoms and molecules) to a 3-D scene generator and "nanomanipulator"
slaved to a researcher's finger.  Includes force feedback as the
substrate is manipulated.  Pretty wierd - and useful - stuff.  Silicon
Graphics is kicking in half the cost.
					   Vic Moberg
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