From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
Subject: HISTORY: Voices in VR (Was Re: EDUC: Texas Colleges...)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 93 20:49:36 CET



In <9304172253.AA24539@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Apr 17, you wrote:

> From: madmax@NeoSoft.com (Jack Stitt)
> Subject: EDUC: Texas Colleges Researching VR...?
> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 07:01:10 GMT
> Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
> ...
> I would like to integrate speach recognition (if it hasn't already been
> done) into VR.

Late 80s, NASA Ames Research Center, VIEW (Virtual Interface
Environment Workstation) System, Scott Fisher, Warren Robinett, Mike
McGreevy (missing anyone?). It was the project which made the general
interest grow about VR, the first low cost HMD, the first glove-HMD
system, the first to introduce the point-and-fly gesture, the first to
develop 3D audio...

I think we still have to conceive something substantial which has not
been at least tried by that group, even with the "crude" technology of
8 years ago.

Diego

[MODERATOR'S NOTE: You're missing psychologist Steve Ellis. -- Bob
Jacobson]

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