From: Mike Bevan Subject: Re: MISC: Looking for Thompson Entertainment Date: February 29, 1996 Message-ID: <825536513.5708.0@vrnews.demon.co.uk> >>Gary Fisher, Ph.D. wrote: >>Thompson Entertainment Systems represented the Venturer two-person pod >>at SIGGRAPH 95. The contact phone number has been disconnected. As I >>recall the company that made the unit was based in England. and "Afshad Mistri" replied: >I think Thompson was using the Intersim pod. Not quite. The Venturer S2 shown at Siggraph 95 is a re-engineered version of the Commander VR capsule, which was launched by Rediffusion Simulation (now part of Thomson) in early 1992, and discontinued shortly thereafter. Some of the team who built the Commander left to form Intersim, which now offers a range of passive and interactive capsules, based on its own 6 DOF hydraulic motion platform, and is becoming quite a substantial and successful company. Their two-seater capsule is called the Challenger. In late 1995 they sold a networked pair of the interactive version, SGI-powered and complete with an air-combat simulation, to an unnamed celebrity (the Sultan of Brunei, I believe) for quite a lot of money, as his personal VR system. Contact details are: Intersim Ltd Unit W., Riverside Industrial Estate Littlehampton West Sussex BN17 5DF UK Tel: +44 1903-733428 Fax: +44 1903-733321 Thomson Entertainment Gatwick Road Crawley West Sussex RH10 2RL UK Tel: +44 1293-563211 Fax: +44 1293-563388 Mike Bevan Editor - VR NEWS