From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Subject: DIGEST: Virtual Interface Marketplace [01.01] Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle ############################################ ### Virtual Interface Marketplace Digest ### ### volume 01, number 01 ### ############################################ Contents: NEW-PROD: Macintosh Cyberscope Support via Qd3d WANTED: PowerGlove, Sega Glasses, & CAE Electronics Contact See the Sci.Virtual-Worlds Meta-FAQ, posted regularily and available by anonymous ftp (ftp.u.washington.edu: /pub/virtual-worlds/Meta-FAQ), for more details on digests and suggestions for 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 ViviStar@ACM.ORG Fri Oct 1 16:28:29 1993 From: ViviStar@ACM.ORG (Jonathan Hess at ViviStar Consulting) Subject: NEW-PROD: Macintosh Cyberscope Support via Qd3d Message-Id: <01H3LW9ZCS0200328I@PASCAL.ACM.ORG> [MODERATOR'S NOTE: Commercial postings are offered on this newsgroup as a public service. Their appearance here does not indicate endorsement by the moderators or by the USENET or its administrators.] Macintosh Cyberscope Support via Qd3d 20 September 1993 -- ViviStar Consulting began shipping version 2.1 of its Qd3d source code library for Macintosh three dimensional graphics. Version 2.1 features support for Simsalabim's Cyberscope stereoscopic viewer. "Qd3d's Cyberscope support marks a new level of usability for Macintosh 3d graphics," said Jonathan Hess, Product Manager at ViviStar. "Lack of depth perception is a fundamental problem with 3d images displayed on computer monitors. Users unfamiliar with a 3d scene have difficulty establishing depth information from static images and this depth information can be critical in certain applications. Stereoscopic techniques combat this by presenting separate left and right eye images to a viewer and allowing the viewer's visual cortex to naturally reconstruct the depth information. Now, with Simsalabim's Cyberscope, users have an economic alternative to more expensive stereoscopic devices. On top of this, SmartPane's movie recording capability enables the creation of cross-platform full-color stereoscopic QuickTime movies." Qd3d is being used by institutions and individuals in sports medicine, geology, molecular modeling, information sciences, entertainment, robotics, and scientific visualization. Existing Qd3d developers should be able to take advantage of the new Cyberscope support with little more effort than recompiling. Qd3d: Qd3d drawing features include: point marking, line drawing, polygon framing and filling, a polyhedra meta-primitive, and text placement. Other features include: smooth Gouraud shading; color blended lines; z-buffering for hidden surface removal; culling; depth cueing; parallel, perspective, and stereoscopic projections; performance enhancing "OnlyQD" and wireframe modes; parameter block access for client meta-primitives; full clipping; support for animation and model interaction; and a "triad mouse" that maps 2d mouse movement to 3d. Qd3d ships as a bundle with the 3dPane and SmartPane libraries. 3dPane integrates Qd3d with the Think Class Library (TCL) and includes a view orientation controller. SmartPane adds TCL support for offscreen image buffering and dithering, image conversion to clipboard and PICT files, flicker free animation, and QuickTime and PICS movie recording. Cyberscope: The Cyberscope is a hood velcroed to the front of a regular computer monitor. Looking straight through the Cyberscope reveals the monitor screen as before with the exception of a vertical divider to separate left and right eye views. Looking down in the Cyberscope allows its front surfaced mirrors to recombine rotated stereoscopic images into a 3d image with depth. Advantages of the Cyberscope over other 3d viewing methods: economic, full color, increased depth perception from images being wider than they are tall, no flicker from low frequency monitors used with shuttered LCD glasses, and no need to go cross-eyed with side-by-side projections. Qd3d/3dPane/SmartPane 2.1 bundle $192. Cyberscope $179. Demonstration programs, movies, and product information are available on AppleLink, CompuServe, and the internet. ViviStar Consulting 7015 E Aster Dr; Scottsdale Az 85254; (602)483 3123 AppleLink: ViviStar CompuServe: 73067,542 Internet: ViviStar@ACM.org Simsalabim Systems, Inc. PO Box 4446 Berkeley CA 94704-0446; (800) 3D TODAY; Fax: 1 800 922 FAXX Internet: scope@well.sf.ca.us --------- From @rodan.uu.net:3APP@qucdn.queensu.ca Sun Oct 3 21:48:44 1993 Organization: Queen's University at Kingston Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 00:38:54 EDT From: 3APP@qucdn.queensu.ca Message-Id: <93277.0038543APP@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Subject: WANTED: PowerGlove, Sega Glasses, & CAE Electronics Contact To start with, I haven't been seeing any posts in this area in a while, so I'm curious to know if we are still receiving it here. To get on with business... Can anyone out there provide me with information an d/or sources for information on CAE Electronics here in Canada? Also intereste d in finding out about the VR work being done at MPR Teltech Ltd. I'm also looking for a supplier of used Nintendo Power Gloves, ideally here in Ontario, or Canada, or anywhere in North America for that matter. I received one message regarding this earlier but could not reply; the address no longer ex isted. I am asking on behalf of myself and a few others I've found around here locally who are equally interested in obtaining the gloves; I've found one pair of SEGA Shutter Glasses, still looking for others. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide me. Andrew Plumb. 3APP@QUCDN.QueensU.CA ----------------------------- Flying through the realms of cyberspace on a digital carpet...