From: wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (William R Sherman)
Subject: Re: APPS: Exercise Science Sports Medicine
Date: 28 Feb 1996 06:55:04 GMT
Message-ID: <4h0u88$n1f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications


In article <...>, Larry Thurow <l-thurow@uiuc.edu> writes:
> Hello!  As I read your comment I could not help but think of several
> different sports applications for virtual reality.  I do some
> basketball officiating so let us imagine.......
> 
> stepping into some kind of artificial room like the holideck (sp?) on
> the Enterprise.  We want to get some practice officiating so we run the
> "Ref" program and one can practice refereeing a game before even 
> stepping out onto a real court!
> 
> Does anyone know of any current applications similar to this other than
> "The Cave" at the University of Illinois?

Hey, are we doing that here?  We sure could have used some VR
trained refs this past season in the GFS league.  Though, I
guess the outcome of most of the games would have been the same.
(We got eliminated from the playoffs tonight, so I can complain
about the officiated now, right?)


	Bill

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