From: gaul@floh.km.mw.tu-muenchen.de (Hans-Dieter Gaul)
Subject: Re: MISC: Virtual Reality in design survey
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 19:11:54 GMT
Organization: TU Muenchen


Bob Jacobson <bob@worldesign.com> wrote:

>Hans-Dieter Gaul wrote:
>> 

>> We want to
>> get information about the way VR-Tools are used in the design process
>> and what problems have to be solved to make VR an effective tool for
>> design.

>I think you will find that companies using design technologies
>consider their activities highly secret and the technologies in
>use proprietary.  Please let us know if this is in fact the case.

>Bob Jacobson
><bob@worldesign.com>

It's very different. We distributed our forms to about 120 companies
in germany via mail. Meanwhile I got about 20 forms back, and some
companies were very interested and announced that they will answer
soon. Some companies seem to ignore the survey, and only a few reject
it. Till now, only Opel (General Motors) telled me that they are
concerned about giving this information to us.  Perhaps they are
frightened because of Lopez... ;-) Companies outside Germany are not
involved in our survey, because its to cost intensive. We try to get
information from other countries by using the internet. For this, I
posted the form in sci.virtual-worlds, sci.engr.mech and
sci.engr.manufacturing. There is also the w3 version on our server,
and I got 4 answers to it.

I think most companies which use VR believe that it's still a long way
for this tools to become relevant in the design process, and so they
hope that they will get new information by joining our survey.


gaul@floh.km.mw.tu-muenchen.de (Hans-Dieter Gaul)