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From: jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My favorite thing at MacWorld: A 6-D Mouse
Keywords: 3d
Message-ID: <34164@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 Aug 89 23:41:20 GMT
References: <15124@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: Galloway Research
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In article <15124@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall) writes:
>What I am talking about is called HyperSpace.  It is a new product and had a
>very small booth near the Aaps exhibit.  It is no less than a revolution in
>input technology.  It is like a 6 dimensional mouse used for inputting data
>from actual 3d models.
>
>The name of the company is something like MiraImages.  A 10$ demo disk is
>available.  The cost of the hardware alone is $3500, but it would be fairly
>useless without the $5000 software.  The whole package is available for $7500.

(Glad to see this technology becoming available.  For those interested in what
may be the source of the base technology Mcdonnell Douglas made/makes a device
that works this way called the 3Space Tracker and 3Space Digitizer, my
literature from them is dated 1984.
Their address is
Polhemus Navigation Sciences Division
Mcdonnell Douglas Electronics Company
PO Box 560
Colchester, Vermont  05446
(812)-655-3159  (keep in mind that this info is 5 years old).
apple!jrg	John R. Galloway, Jr.       contract programmer, San Jose, Ca

These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!