From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Optical HMD technology?
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 15:05:00 CET



> From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin)
> Subject: HARDWARE: Optical HMD technology?
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 00:38:17 -0500
> 
> I seem to
> recall that CAE (makers of large Flight Simulators, based here in
> Montreal) had designed this monster of an HMD a few years ago based on
> optical technology.
> 
> [MODERATOR'S NOTE: I believe Virtual Reality, Inc., in upstate New
> York, as well as other firms, are developing optical HMDs.  Based on
> military technology, so far they have proven quite expensive. ...

To my knoledge the only companies selling fiber optic HMD are CAE and
Polhemus Labs. If anyone knows of other, please let us know.

About VRI: I thought they made CRT based HMD, not fiber optic ones (as
VR Group, Kaiser...)

Diego

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