From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [05.21] Date: September 18, 1997 Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 05, number 21 Contents: INFO: Where get I information about network virtual reality INFO: Head mounted displays REFS: Physical Constraints 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: Kim Ki-Jun Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Where get I information about network virtual reality Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 16:29:58 +0900 Organization: System Engineering Research Institute (SERI) Message-ID: <340BC076.F545316@palgong.kyungpook.ac.kr> Reply-To: kkjun@palgong.kyungpook.ac.kr I read an article about network virtual reality in that many users can share same space. In that users effects each other. Are there any information about it? Please mail to me. Thanks. [Many good places to start, however...I have a Distributed Virtual Reality bibliography http://www.hitl.washington.edu/kb/distvr/ and also a WWW page: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/kb/distributedvr.html -T.E.] --------------------------------------- From: "Brad Burnett" Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: Head mounted displays Date: 3 Sep 1997 19:02:03 GMT Organization: BDC Message-ID: <01bcb89c$9e8a3d40$1ab2adcd@vogmudet> NNTP-Posting-Host: msn-1-11.binc.net There does not seem to be much talk of head mounted displays anymore. Has everyone given up on them because of the limited res.? --------------------------------------- From: Kim Ki-Jun Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: REFS: Physical Constraints Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 17:23:22 +0900 Organization: System Engineering Research Institute (SERI) Message-ID: <3420E4F9.68420A87@palgong.kyungpook.ac.kr> Reply-To: kkjun@palgong.kyungpook.ac.kr I want to use physical constraints in a Virtual Environment. Gravity , Friction and Pushing. Are there any related papers or books? Please sene me e-mail. Thank you. Kim Ki-Jun [Adachi, Y. (1993). Touch and Trace on the Free-Form Surface of Virtual Object: IEEE 1993 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium, VRAIS '93. (pp. 162-168). IEEE Service Center. Adachi, Y.; Kumano, T.; Ogino, K. (1995). Intermediate Representation for Stiff Virtual Objects: Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium, VRAIS '95. (pp. 203-210). IEEE Computer Society Press. Burdea, G. (1996). Physical Constraints. In "Force and Touch Feedback for Virtual Reality" (pp. 194-197). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Iwata, H. (1990). Artifical Reality with Force-Feedback: Development of Desktop Virtual Space with Compact Master Manipulator. Computer Graphics, 24(4), 165-170. Keller, H., Stolz, H., Ziegler, A. and Braunl, T. (1995, July). Virtual mechanics simulation and animation of rigid body systems with AERO. Simulation, 65(1), pp. 74-9. Papper, M. and Giganete, M. (1993). Using Physical Constraints in a Virtual Environment. In "Virtual Reality Systems" (pp. 107-118). Orlando, FL: Academic Press. Found good friction citation, but it's in Japanese: Yoshikawa, T. and Okamoto, T. (1996, May). Display of operating feel of virtual tools in rigid frictional contact with environment. Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 32(5), pp. 741-9. Authors are affiliated with Kyoto University, Japan. Searching on friction I found citations in robotics and telepresence, like the following: Siira, J. and Pai, D. K. (1996). Haptic texturing-a stochastic approach. In Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 557-62, vol.1). New York, NY: IEEE. Pai's home page at the University of British Columbia: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/pai/home.html Regarding gravity, I searched my bibliography (http://www.hitl.washington.edu/kb/meta) just on that keyword and came up with: Duncan, K. M.; Harm, D. L.; Crosier, W. G. ; Worthington, J. W. (1993). Using Virtual Environment Technology for Preadapting Astronauts to the Novel Sensory Conditions of Microgravity: 1993 Conference on Intelligent Computer-Aided Training and Virtual Environment Technology (ICAT/VET). (pp. 397-401). NASA. Ray, D. M. ; Van Chau, M. N. (1994). Virtual Environment Application with Partial Gravity Simulation: ISMCR'94: Topical Workshop on Virtual Reality. (pp. 114-124). NASA. Related terms would be "dynamics", "collision detection",...broader terms are "kinematic modeling" and "haptics" (very broad). For general haptic links, a good way to start check the Haptics Web: http://haptic.mech.nwu.edu There is a database of researchers, links list by research category as well as a Online Haptics Library. -T.E.] ************************************************************ End of Info Booth ************************************************************