From: genreality@aol.com Subject: ANNOUNCE: General Reality Wins Award Date: 11 Nov 1996 23:05:55 GMT Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) (1.10) NEWS RELEASE Contact: Arthur Zwern, President General Reality Company 124 Race Street San Jose, CA 95126 408-289-8340 Arthur@genreality.com www.genreality.com General Reality Company Wins Technology of the Year Award Leading Virtual Reality Company Wins SBIR Technology of the Year Award in Health & Medicine Category November 6, 1996, San Jose, CA: General Reality Company today announced that it won the "Small Business Innovation and Research Technology of the Year Award" in the Health and Medicine category. The award was presented on October 30th at Technology 2006, the leading annual business event for technology transfer in the United States. Sponsors of the event include the Technology Utilization Foundation, NASA, and the Federal Labs Consortium. The Technology of the Year Awards are presented annually in five categories, to those organizations whose Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) projects demonstrate the highest combination of technological innovation and commercial potential. General Reality was selected by a distinguished panel of judges for its development of the Virtual Computer Monitor (VCM (tm)), a patent-pending device which uses virtual reality technologies to improve computer access for visually-impaired users. The VCM uses a virtual reality head-mounted display with built-in head tracking and standard screen enlarger software to provide an intuitive navigational interface for magnified computer imagery, in a low-cost, portable access solution. The system was developed under an SBIR grant from the National Eye Institute. According to Arthur Zwern, president of General Reality, "We are extremely pleased to win this award, which helps validate virtual reality as a key driving technology for the twenty-first century. The intuitive human interfaces General Reality develops for virtual reality simulations are beginning to provide important benefits to the public, just as the space program spun-off hundreds of valuable products like velcro. We appreciate the National Eye Institute's sponsorship, and look forward to developing this technology into powerful enabling products for the nation's one million visually-impaired citizens." General Reality Company is a leading supplier of high-performance virtual reality and motion capture products for scientific, commercial, and public entertainment applications, with a customer base that includes hundreds of leading researchers, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies. For additional information, please contact General Reality Company at 408-289-8340, FAX 408-289-8258, email arthur@genreality.com, or http://www.genreality.com. === [MODERATOR'S NOTE: Commercial postings are offered on this newsgroup as a public service. Their appearance here does not indicate endorsement by the moderators or by the USENET or its administrators.]