From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [04.11] Date: May 2, 1996 Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 04, number 11 Contents: ADMIN: Apology SPECS: LCD shutter glasses INFO: Homebrew VR INFO: Voice recognition in VR? INFO: Virtual Reality research INFO: Looking for HMD for Gaming INFO: Augmented Reality See the Sci.Virtual-Worlds FAQ, posted monthly http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/virtual-worlds/readfirst-faq.html, for more details on the organization of this newsgroup. There is also a home page for the ftp site: URL: ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu/pub/scivw/WWW/scivw.html This Digest is archived at the sci.virtual-worlds archive site, URL: ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu/pub/scivw/Digests/ Toni Emerson Moderator, sci.virtual-worlds http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/diderot ---------------------------------START OF DIGEST------------------------------ From: Toni Emerson Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: SPECS: LCD shutter glasses Date: 12 Apr 1996 00:01:30 GMT Organization: Mr. T. Goodwin Message-ID: <4kk6gq$2i5@nuntius.u-net.net> I am looking for information about LCD shutter glasses. ie. specifications, frequency etc. Thanks Tim --------------------------------------- From: Lawrence Schembri Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Homebrew VR Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:06:17 -0700 Organization: fONOROLA i*internet inc. Message-Id: <316E00E9.4094@dialedin.com> Is there any homebrew areas on the internet? I am looking for things other than hooking up a powerglove or shutter glasses. ie. taking the flex fingers from the powergloves and using them on other joints such as elbows, wrists, etc. Making HMD from scratch. Mandala type of system. I just purchased an interacter and was thinking of taking it apart and using it in sort of a chair for such things as flight sims. I am looking at making my own web page and would like to add such docs to it. Any help would be appreciated. Lawrence --------------------------------------- From: aq251@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Jason Cobill) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Voice recognition in VR? Date: 12 Apr 1996 17:59:03 GMT Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Sender: aq251@freenet3.carleton.ca (Jason Cobill) Message-ID: <4km5l7$i8e@freenet-news.carleton.ca> I'm sure by now someone's tried to couple Voice Recognition with VR as a navigation/control tool. Can anyone lead me to some information on the subject? Jason Cobill -- "A little nonsense now and then, Jason Cobill is relished by the wisest men." aq251@freenet.carleton.ca - Willy Wonka :) :) :) :) :) [ Check out the VRAIS '96 Multimodal Tutorial at: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/grof/tutorial0.html] --------------------------------------- From: sestito@latcs1.cs.latrobe.edu.au (Sabrina Sestito) Subject: INFO: Virtual Reality research Message-Id: Organization: Comp.Sci & Comp.Eng, La Trobe Uni, Australia Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 02:02:36 GMT Greetings, I am a Research Scientist at a Research Laboratory and am interested in doing something in VR. I already have some possible applications, but I need more technical information. I know a little about the equipment (eg HMDs, CAVE, gloves and software tools etc.). I am trying to find out what are the main research areas of VR. Can some-one please give me some references or information about the current research in VR. Thankyou for your time. Sabrina -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Sabrina Sestito Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory 506 Lorimer St., Port Melbourne, Victoria 3207, AUSTRALIA Phone (03) 9626 7271, Fax (03) 9646 7084 -------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- From: Don Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Looking for HMD for Gaming Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 17:58:35 -0400 Organization: ProLog - PenTeleData, Inc. Message-ID: <3187DE8B.570E@postoffice.ptd.net> I want to get into the vr world but I need a Really good HMD all for Gaming. Does anyone know of one. I need high video resolution and head tracking. Thanks Keith --------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 18:47:31 +0100 Reply-To: Rainer Daude From: Rainer Daude Subject: INFO: Augmented Reality Hi there, I am looking for books, articles, etc. concerning augmented reality. Any hint or recommendation is deeply appreciated! Thanks, Rainer. * Rainer Daude * Machine Tool Laboratory / Technical University of Aachen * Steinbachstrasse 53 * 52074 Aachen, GERMANY * * Phone +49-241-805925 Fax +49-241-8888293 * e-mail dau@wzl-wm1.wzl.rwth-aachen.de [Two places: Excellent Tutorial by Ron Azuma: Azuma, R. (1995, August) SIGGRAPH Tutorial on Augumented Reality is available for download in postscript form. http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/ARcourse.ps Special issue of Communications on the ACM, July 1993. Some citations listed at: ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu/pub/scivw/citations/Augmented-Reality-list I'm working on a bibliography now, it's not ready. So, I'd be interested in your leads as well. Toni Emerson, temerson@hitl.washington.edu] ************************************************************ End of Info Booth ***********************************************************