From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [05.23] Date: October 16, 1997 Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 05, number 23 Contents: INFO: fastrack? SPECS: Virtual World Thru VFX1 Re: INFO: Mattel PowerGlove 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: Tom Coffin Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: fastrack? Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:13:34 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 20 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pecos.ncsa.uiuc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone have information about a "fastrack" tracking system? I'm looking for documentation. thanks... ----------------------------------------------------------- Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Virtual Environments Group University of Illinois, Urbana tel: 217-244-3664 M/C 476 - 152 CAB lab: 217-244-4913 605 East Springfield Avenue fax: 217-244-2909 Champaign, IL 61820 http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin ___________________________________________________________ [From our Tracker FAQ at: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/tracker-faq.html Polhemus Inc. product: FasTrak One Hercules Dr. P.O. Box 560 Colchester, VT 05446 (800) 357-4777 or (802) 655-3159 e-mail product_info@polhemus.com [Online: WWW] http://www.polhemus.com/trackers method: magnetic frequency: 30 Hz DOF: 6 latency: 4ms #Rcvrs: 4 range: 10ft accuracy: 0.03in, 0.15deg price: $6050 -T.E.] --------------------------------------- From: john prohaska Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: SPECS: Virtual World Thru VFX1 Date: 13 Oct 1997 12:59:25 GMT Organization: I.NET S.p.A Lines: 7 Message-ID: <61t5vd$mq6$1@urano.inet.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.20.63.133 Hy, I have a VFX1 and I will like to create a virtual Vorld and then nove thru my VFX1 in it. What cheap thing I could use, maby a VRML browser that can be configurated by my VFX1???? or a Quake engine ??? Anybodu have an Idea??? Thanks --------------------------------------- From: "Sci.Virtual-Worlds" To: L0K Subject: Re: INFO: Mattel PowerGlove Date: Thu, 16 Oct 97 11:31:10 -0700 Please see our Haptics FAQ at: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/haptics-faq.html Subject: -5- What about the PowerGlove? 5.1 Groups to contact: Power Glove Serial Interface UIUC Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery 1304 West Springfield, Room 1225 Urbana, IL 61801 Email: pgsi@uiuc.edu 5.2 FAQs: PGSI FAQ http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigarch/pgsi/pgsifaq.html Power Glove FAQ Is available as an HTML document, By J. Eric Townsend: http://www.spies.com/jet/VR/faq-0.3.html The older FAQ is at: ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu/pub/scivw/glove-faq 5.3 FTP sites: Below is an excerpt from the old Glove-List FAQ: "1.3 ftp sites schmidt@cogsci.uwo.ca has offered the use of cogsci.uwo.ca as a powerglove related ftp site. Check: /pub/vr for a variety of glove-list relted stuff. karazm.math.uh.edu is no longer the powerglove ftp site." Chris Hand has done a couple good WWW pages on the PowerGlove: PowerGlove Sources by Chris Hand http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk:80/~cph/glove-src.html PowerGlove by Chris Hand http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/People/cph/pg.html http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/People/cph/pg2.html 5.4 Articles & Info: Gardner, Dana L. "The Power Glove", Design News. 4-Dec-89 pp63-68 Karlo Takki's PowerGlove Information Page http://www.badanimals.com/users/ktakki/glove/index.html -T.E.] ************************************************************ End of Info Booth ************************************************************