From: ben@cyberedge.com (Ben Delaney) Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: Successful VR Apps Date: 21 Dec 1996 01:25:38 GMT Message-ID: <59feai$lvb@miwok.nbn.com> Organization: CyberEdge Information Services In article <58s3ts$70k@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, of December 13, 1996, Virtual Presence says... > >In article <199611302058.PAA26974@puffer.cs.unc.edu>, Mark Mine > writes >>Greetings, >> >>My question: Does anybody really use VR for real work? > >MISTvr - Minimally Invasive Surgical Training and Evaluation System. > >Developed jointly by Virtual Presence and VR Solutions, This is a >packaged VR system currently in use for surgical training and >available of the shelf. You can see it on our website >(http://www.vrweb.con) or at Medicine Meets VR in San Diego in >January. At MMVR, Chris Sutton of Virtual Presence will be giving a >paper on the system. In addition, I suggest that you take a look at any CyberEdge Journal form the past year or two. In every issue we feature real-life applications of VR. In the current issue (Nov.Dec. 1996) we have a front-page article on a very nice driving simulator used to evealuate the skills of tank-truck drivers. Inside is an article describing a psychotherapy application used to help people with poor body images. Also, every year we award CyberEdge Journal Virtual Reality Product of the Year Awards for applications, and never have any shortage of "VR used for real work". It is a shortcoming of our industry that more people don't know about the excellent applications being used every day to solve real problems. That's why we will feature many applications at our Virtual Reality WorlWide conference next spring. Indeed, we will have a panel discussion called "The 100:1 solution" wherre industry leaders will talk about the big-time paybacks they have acheived with VR. Virtual Presense's MIST VR is only one of many good applications: it just takes looking a little harder to find them (or subscribing to CyberEdge Journal!). Ben -- ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* CyberEdge Information Services Where the world turns for news of Virtual Reality #1 Gate Six Road, Suite G, Sausalito, CA 94965 USA 415 331-EDGE (3343), FAX: 415 331-3643 info@cyberedge.com, ben@cyberedge.com CyberEdge Electric! --> http://www.cyberedge.com ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< [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.]