From: sim@nyx.xs4all.nl (Sim Yskes)
Subject: Re: MISC: PC based VR demos needed
Date: 21 Jun 1996 19:52:16 +0200
Message-ID: <4qengg$6pv@nyx.xs4all.nl>
Organization: Wij van Nyx adviseren nyx



Simon Poole (sap@hplb.hpl.hp.com) wrote:

: > how about Descent (and a VFX1 Headgear), or Doom or Heretic or Duke
: > Nukem 3D...
: > 

: These are all very well, but are any of them true 3D?  I know Doom 
: certainly isn't.  Something that uses true 3D on one of the standard 
: rendering engines would be ideal.

About descent, it is 3D. The walls have a real depth sensation, but
the flying objects you have to shoot are sprites, which also move at
different depths, but when they are close, the look as flat as a piece
of paper.

Gr. Sim

sim@nyx.xs4all.nl (Sim Yskes)