From: Robin Hollands <R.Hollands@sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: MISC: Speaker needed on VR in firefighting training
Date: 13 Feb 1996 13:58:08 GMT
Message-ID: <4fq5dg$aun@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
Organization: Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield 


From: Robin Hollands <R.Hollands@sheffield.ac.uk>

>I have received an e-mail from Mr. Richard Balsillie, the Executive
>Director of the Australian Fire Protection Association. The AFPA is
>apparently conducting an annual conference here in Melbourne in
>October, and "... are hoping to have a speaker provide a forward
>looking presentation exploring the uses of virtual reality in
>training."
>

I've got a brochure somewhere about Firefighting training VR
simulators developed by the Southwest Research Inistitute at San
Antio, Texas. I seem to recall it was a fully immersive system and
even had olfactory input, all based around a replica of a firman's
breathing apparatus. If you need any more info., I can send you
contact details of the SRI's subsidiary in the UK, who sent me the
original brochure.

Cheers,

Robin
(UK VR-SIG Chairman)