From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [01.06] Part 2 of 2 Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle ############################################ ### Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest ### ### volume 01, number 06 ### ### Part 2 ### ############################################ Contents: Re: SPECS: DIMENSION's SuperScape (VRT3) Re: INFO: VR Companies FAX numbers Re: INFO: TCAS DATAWEAR Address Re: WHO: VR company in Carlsbad, CA? Re: REFS: Stereoscopic displays Re: SPECS: TCP/IP source code --------- From geoffrey@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz Wed Nov 10 09:41:54 1993 Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1993 01:33:09 +0000 (GMT) From: geoffrey@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Geoff Thomas) Subject: Re: SPECS: DIMENSION's SuperScape (VRT3) Message-Id: Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Path: geoffrey References: <2b8ssf$plg@news.u.washington.edu> Re: SPECS: DIMENSION's SuperScape (VRT3) There was an article in CGW (computer graphics weekly?) just recently here (which means about 2-4 months ago for the US folks), that compared WTK, CDK, PhotoVR and a few other packages against each other. >From the original description of requirements (animated flythrough) it sounds like PhotoVR would be a good choice, from what I know of it, which isn't much. They aim at doing photorealistic apps, with a sacrifice in interactiveness/manipulation of the 3D world. Check the article out anyway, it's quite informative. Geoff Thomas Geoff Thomas geoffrey@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz Computer Science Dept. University of Canterbury Private Bag +-------+ Christchurch | Oook! | New Zealand +-------+ -------- From Wed Nov 10 09:42:00 1993 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 17:41:42 +0100 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9311041641.AA16827@imiucca.csi.unimi.it> To: scivw@hitl.washington.edu From: Diego Montefusco X-Sender: montefus@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Unverified) Subject: Re: WHO: VR company in Carlsbad, CA? >Hi, I've heard recently that there was a Virtual Reality Company in >Carlsbad, California, I believe it was. Unfortunately, I do not know >the name. Does anyone have any information, and perhaps an email or >smail address? The only Carlsbad based company I am aware of is Kaiser Electro-Optics Inc., manufacturer of the SimEye and VIM HMDs Kaiser Electro-Optics Inc. 2752 Loker Avenue West Carlsbad, CA 92008 USA Tel: (619) 438-9255 Fax: (619) 438-6875 Diego ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Diego Montefusco | Universita' di Milano | | Via Lepontina, 9 | Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione | | 20159 Milano | | | Italia | montefus@dsi.unimi.it | | Tel: +39 2 6072216 | Mai dire (or)mai | ------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- From montefus@dsi.unimi.it Wed Nov 10 09:42:06 1993 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 17:41:50 +0100 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9311041641.AA16831@imiucca.csi.unimi.it> To: scivw@hitl.washington.edu From: Diego Montefusco X-Sender: montefus@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Unverified) Subject: Re: INFO: VR Companies FAX numbers >Could anyone please provide me with the FAX numbers of the following >companies associated with VR technology? : > > Pop-Optix Labs The name now is: Leep Systems Inc. Fax: (617) 647-1109 > CAE Electronics Ltd Fax: (514) 341-7699 Diego --------- From montefus@dsi.unimi.it Wed Nov 10 09:42:13 1993 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 17:41:45 +0100 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9311041641.AA16829@imiucca.csi.unimi.it> To: scivw@hitl.washington.edu From: Diego Montefusco Subject: Re: INFO: TCAS DATAWEAR Address I asked: >If now anyone has their address, thanks a lot! (I know they are in Cardiff, >Wales) I've been told: TCAS 130 City Road, Cardiff CF2 3DR UK Tel: +44 734-343724 Fax: +44 734-345124 Ciao, Diego [see also Sci.virtual-worlds.apps posting by R.Hollands@shefield.ac.UK, "UK: Virtual Presence to distribute TCAS DATAWEAR~, Oct. 24, 1993. -T.E.] ---------- From thinman@netcom.com Wed Nov 10 09:42:20 1993 Path: thinman From: Technically Sweet Subject: Re: REFS: Stereoscopic displays Message-Id: Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom References: <2b8ssf$plg@news.u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 19:09:36 GMT Sorry, it was Michael Deering's paper in Siggraph '91 that covers stereoptic geometry. -- Lance Norskog thinman@netcom.com Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom. [Was that a tutorial? I couldn't find the Deering paper in 1991 Siggraph Proceedings in Computer Graphics, Volume 25, Number 4. -T.E.] --------- From gwertzma@husc7.harvard.edu Wed Nov 10 09:43:06 1993 Path: husc7!gwertzma From: James Gwertzman Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: SPECS: TCP/IP source code Date: 5 Nov 93 17:00:47 GMT Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Message-Id: References: <2b8ssf$plg@news.u.washington.edu> scivw@hitl.washington.edu writes: > This isn't a directly VR related question, but I was wondering >if anyone has any idea of where I could find source code and >information about programming with the TCP/IP protocol (preferably C The best source is probably Unix Network Programming by Stevens. -- James Gwertzman : It's all in my .plan [Stevens, W. Richard. (1990). UNIX network programming. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall. -T.E.] #EOF#