From: Markus Schlegel Subject: INDUSTRY: Suggestion on video on VR research in Japan to VIRTU-Lers in Europe Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 21:46:44 CDT VIRTU-L Hello Everyone! On 06/01 Rick Schlichting wrote: >From: rick@cs.arizona.edu (Rick Schlichting) >Subject: INDUSTRY: Kahaner Report: Videotape of Japanese research in >Virtual Reality >Date: 1 Jun 1993 12:32:23 -0700 >Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ > >Crossposted (thoughtfully) by Rick Schlichting, from comp.research.japan (stuff deleted) > Email: kahaner@cs.titech.ac.jp >Re: Videotape of recent Japanese research in Virtual Reality >25 May 1993 >This file is named "vr-video.93" > >ABSTRACT. Availability of videotape showing recent Japanese activities >in Virtual Reality. > >Approximately one dozen different research projects related to Virtual >Reality that are underway in Japanese university and government >laboratories are demonstrated in a just-released English language video >tape, Virtual Reality '93. The tape shows the projects at essentially >their current state. Content supervision was provided by > > Professor Susumu Tachi (stuff deleted) I, for one, would be very interested in obtaining a copy of the tape, as I am currently preparing a thesis on the implications of VR on the field of communications. However, there seem to be several obstacles to this: firstly, the TV-standard in Japan and the US is NTSC, whereas in Europe it is PAL or SECAM. Thus I would propose that for continental Europe we organize some kind of collective order and request (just in case I am not the only one interested). That would have two great advantages: for one, we could save lots in cost of NTSC-PAL translation. Secondly, I guess we would be there much faster instead of filing individual requests to the persons named in Rick's mail. What are your suggestions? --Markus BTW: is the material copyright-free, or otherwise, what is the price of the tape? -- Markus Schlegel At Universitaet Bonn, Germany markus@uni-bonn.de