From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [05.13] Date: May 8, 1997 Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 05, number 13 Contents: INFO: Virtual Reality Graphics Toolkit, which one? INFO: CyberMaxx HMD where to get one... INFO: Themekit INFO: Help about Cyberspace and Virtual Reality !!!! INFO: VR "sickness" INFO: Virtual I/O Info INFO: I need information See the Sci.Virtual-Worlds FAQ, posted monthly http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/readfirst-faq.html, for more details on the organization of this newsgroup. Sci.virtual-worlds WWW page is at: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/ 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: "Heriberto castillo" Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Virtual Reality Graphics Toolkit, which one? Date: 18 Apr 1997 06:13:45 GMT Organization: University of Puerto Rico Lines: 9 Message-Id: <01bc4c01$8b49d040$b93d9188@casiopea> Hi I want some opinions about what VR toolkit is best. I need collision detection built in, support for HMD and polhemus tracker. and a lot of graphics funcions to simplify my job, so I can spend more time on the physics of my job. Thanks in advance. castillo@dynamic.upr.clu.edu --------------------------------------- From: "Heriberto castillo" Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: CyberMaxx HMD where to get one... Date: 18 Apr 1997 06:03:13 GMT Organization: University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Message-Id: <01bc4c00$13a4f520$b93d9188@casiopea> I think I ask this long time ago but I don't have the references. I want to know how much is a CyberMaxx HMD and where to get one. Or any equivalent HMD, like something more immersive than IO glasses. Thanks in advance. "Heriberto castillo" --------------------------------------- From: "wes" Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Themekit Date: 6 May 1997 03:22:39 GMT Organization: home Message-ID: <01bc59cc$ebd163a0$15cfd9cd@default> Has anyone out there had any experience with themekit yet, Is it worth buying for the homebrewer? I was wondering, they say the demo is old, but its cool still. How about any new demo's like the old one, has there been any yet? "wes" --------------------------------------- From: bastien Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Help about Cyberspace and Virtual Reality !!!! Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 11:15:42 +0200 Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Message-ID: <336EF6BE.6EC@Student.fh-Reutlingen.de> Hallo cyberguys, I need information about the cyberspace or about virtual reality! Please help me, cause I have to write a work on these topics. So if you know any cool links, programms or other things relating cyberspacce or virtual reality please send mail to: Bernd.Burkhart@Student.Fh-Reutlingen.de [Please take a look at our reference FAQ: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/reference-faq.html -Toni] --------------------------------------- From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan?= Fahlstedt Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: VR "sickness" Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 14:48:36 +0200 Organization: d93-hfa@nada.kth.se Message-ID: <33707A24.11EF@nada.kth.se> Hello! Could someone please tell me where I can find any research reports on people feeling sick when using Virtual Reality. Please mail me at d93-hfa@nada.kth.se Thanks! Hekan Fahlstedt [The keyword you're looking for is "simulator sickness" Take a look at Eugenia Kolasinki's dissertation: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/kolasinki/ and her technical report on Simulator Situal Environments: http://eng.hss.cmu.edu/cyber/simsick.html HITL VR Effects Lab: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrefx/ Dr. Robert Kennedy of the Essex Corporation: http://www.essexcorp.com/sedhf1.htm International Workshop on Motion Sickness: http://www.ion.bpmf.ac.uk/~dizzymrc/motsick.html -Toni] --------------------------------------- From: *RipSter@eot.com* (RipSter) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Virtual I/O Info Message-Id: <5krkrl$378$2@news.ispn.net> Date: 8 May 97 04:33:42 GMT References: <5krklg$378$1@news.ispn.net> Organization: Internet Services Provider Network oh..I forgot...the website for Virtual I/O is gone..that is why I'm asking for info about this bankruptcy. --------------------------------------- From: "Yasmin Hasan" To: Subject: INFO: I need information Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 16:13:32 -0400 Please help me find some contacts or resources in locating universities or other academic institutions that specialize in virtual reality studies. I am looking for either places in the U.S. or in Canada. I hope you can be of some assistance to me. Your efforts are much appreciated. Sincerely, Jasmine [I produce a research center directory available by-- geographic location http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/research.html also, alphabetically http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/research_alpha.html -Toni] ************************************************************ End of Info Booth ************************************************************