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From: well!oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Tektronix Virtual Reality board for Macintosh
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Date: 3 Jun 90 09:11:12 GMT
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Run! do not walk to your local magazine store and get a copy
of the  Summer 1990 issue of _Whole_Earth_Review. There are
many great articles in this issue. P. 32 has a short description
of a desktop DNA sequencer & companion DNA sequence reader.
Both have interfaces to either Macs or PCs.

Turn to page 80 for "Travels in Virtual Reality" by Howard 
Rheingold.

Here is a quote from page 83:

"Tektronix Corporation, which started out as an oscilliscope
company, is already marketing a hardware/software package
called CAChe (Computer Aided Chemical Modeling). CAChe is a
molecular modeling program with 3-D input control, stereo
3-D output, and high computing speed. Tektronix's stereo frame
buffer board fits in a Mac II and drives a liquid crystal,
stereo frame shutter that covers the monitor's screen. The unit,
transparent to the naked eye, reverses the polarity of the emerging
screen's image at 120 hertz, which provides each eye with a left or 
right view at 60 hertz per eye. The view through "electronic
shutters" creates a stereoscopic 3D effect by showing alternate
views to each eye."

Does anyone have info on price and performance of this beast?
-- 
-- David Phillip Oster - Note new address. Old one has gone Bye Bye.
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