From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [01.07] Part 1 of 3 Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle ############################################ ### Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest ### ### volume 01, number 07 ### ### Part 1 ### ############################################ Contents: Part 1 INFO: Looking for an adress INFO: VR Entertainment in SF Bay Area EDUC: Internships in VR EDUC: How to get into the VR field? WHO: Travelling in the US Re: REFS: Stereoscopic displays See the Sci.Virtual-Worlds Meta-FAQ, posted monthly and available by anonymous ftp (ftp.u.washington.edu: /pub/virtual-worlds/Meta-FAQ), for more details on digests and suggestions on how to read them. _^_ Toni Emerson, Mike "Squish" Almquist, Aaron Pulkka, et al. <(===)> \|/ HITL Sci.Virtual-Worlds Moderating Group H Fluke Hall FJ-15, U of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195 == cut here ==== cut here ==== cut here ==== cut here ==== cut here == From mcholz@cip.ft.uni-erlangen.de Tue Nov 16 16:40:16 1993 Subject: INFO: Looking for an adress From: Marc Holz Message-ID: I'm looking for the adress of the following firm : Virtual Reality Laboratories San Luis Obispo, CA USA They are selling some cd-roms. I like to get to know the real adress before sending a letter. The address is: Virtual Reality Laboratories Inc. 2341 Ganador Court San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 tel: 805 545-8515 fax: 805 781-2259 -T.E.] --------- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 93 21:43:15 -0800 From: "David Gaba M.D." Message-Id: <9311161954.AA00188@stein2.u.washington.edu> Subject: INFO: VR Entertainment in SF Bay Area One of my colleague's son (about 14 years old) is interested in getting a VR entertainment experience (of some undefined nature) for a Xmas present. My colleague has asked me to try to find out some information about the details of such entertainment in the SF Bay area. Can anyone provide information, names, phone numbers, etc.? Any help would be greatly appreciated David Gaba, M.D. Assoc. Prof. of Anesthesia Stanford University gaba@leland.stanford.edu Please reply via email if at all possible. Thanks, DG [Perhaps the San Francisco VR Group would be a good place to start for information, contact Linda Jacobson, Verge (Virtual Reality Group), 16050 Kings Creek Rd., Boulder Creek, CA 95006, Tel: 415 826-4716, or email: lindaj@well.sf.ca.us. Linda Jacobson is the editor of: Jacobson, L. (ed.). (1992). Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology. San Francisco, CA: Miller Freeman, Inc. She also has written a new book that is due out shortly called "Garage Virtual Reality". -T.E.] --------- From mattl@eng.umd.edu Tue Nov 16 16:40:35 1993 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 14:36:27 -0500 From: Matthew Locke Message-Id: <199311111936.AA26001@harmonic.eng.umd.edu> Subject: EDUC: Internships in VR Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds In-Reply-To: <2brep5$n1h@news.u.washington.edu> Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park I am an EE student at the University of Maryland and I have been bitten by the VR bug. If anyone has information on interships and co-ops in the R&D of VR field for companies such as Autodesk, Sense8, W industries, or others; I would appreciate it. Unfortunately, the UM co-op program does not have any companies interested in VR. Thanks in advance, Matthew Locke Email mattl@eng.umd.edu --------- From dudacy@ganesha.sjc.edu Tue Nov 16 16:40:40 1993 Message-Id: <9311112016.AA28394@stein2.u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 14:16:00 -0500 From: dudacy@ganesha.sjc.edu Subject: EDUC: How to get into the VR field? I am a Senior in college ,majoring in MATH/COMPUTER SCIENCE, and I am in the process of finishing my Senior Coordination paper (eq.to a thesis) on Virtual Reality. I am fascinated with VR and would love to have a career in it. I am still not really sure of how to get started in this direction, do you need any special background experience or VR courses or can you just jump into it if you are a quick learner? I am a quick learner and if anybody is interested in training/teaching me for a job or as a internship, it would be great. I am finishing my degree in December, and I am currently in the process of looking for a job, and looking for universities that have might have courses in VR. If you know of any places that offer courses, it would be great if you could share them with me. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Yvette Dudac ->dudacy@ganesha.sjc.edu --------- From micieli@ifi.unizh.ch Tue Nov 16 16:39:49 1993 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 15:04:22 +0100 From: Roberto Micieli Sender: micieli@ifi.unizh.ch Subject: WHO: Travelling in the US Message-ID: <1993Nov9.140415.1307@ifi.unizh.ch> Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science Date: Tue, 9 Nov 93 14:04:15 GMT Hello My name is Roberto Micieli and I work at the University of Zuerich, Switzerland. Together with Kornell Szabo we run the VR-Operations in Zuerich. Our Platform consists of several SGI workstations, amongst others an ONYX, a FASTRAK space-tracking system, a CyberGlove and a FlightHelmet. We work on Divisions dVS. I am posting this short resume so you know who I am and what I do. Now, soon I am gonna take my vacations in the US. Therefore, I will go to LA, SF, Pittsburgh and New York. I would absolutely not want to miss the chance to go see some VR-companies and some VR-labs at your Universities. Who can give me some names and contacts? To find out what I can offer in exchange, why don't you travel to Switzerland, I will be glad to show you all of our work! Roberto --------- From montefus@dsi.unimi.it Tue Nov 16 16:40:55 1993 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 18:19:12 +0100 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9311121719.AA17538@imiucca.csi.unimi.it> From: Diego Montefusco Subject: Re: REFS: Stereoscopic displays >Sorry, it was Michael Deering's paper in Siggraph '91 that covers >stereoptic geometry. >[Was that a tutorial? I couldn't find the Deering paper in 1991 Siggraph >Proceedings in Computer Graphics, Volume 25, Number 4. -T.E.] I think the paper Lance refers to is actually in 92 Siggraph Proceedings. "High resolution VR" or something like that (quoting by heart); I don't have it handy and I haven't put all Siggraph proceedings in my database, YET! The article details the implementation of an LC shutter glasses based system which takes into account a lot of parameters such as eyeball size and so on... Diego [Deering, M. F. (1992). High Resolution Virtual Reality. Computer Graphics. (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1992). 26(2), 195-201. -T.E.] #EOF#