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From: ins_atge@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Thomas G Edwards)
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Subject: Re: Homebrew VR gear
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Date: 15 Sep 90 00:22:33 GMT
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In article <7508@milton.u.washington.edu> lowry@src.honeywell.com (Dave Lowry) w
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>Hobbyist-level VR gear can be cobbled together pretty cheaply.  I've
>built the following:
>$200 - Stereo headset made of two Sony camcorder monitors driven by a
>       Mac II with two video boards.  Field-of-view is very narrow;
>       someone knowledgeble in optics could probably fix this easily.
>       The monitors need only +5v, ground, and an ntsc composite signal.

I'm curious as to how good of a 3-D effect you have been getting.

Another piece of VR hardware is just a video camera and a high-speed
video digitizer.  If you put yourself up against a white wall, and
turn the camera on yourself, and feed the digitized video into a computer
capable of doing edge-detection, you have a sort of data-suit, i.e.
all your body motions can be observed.

One project you can do with this is "tickle".  One person gets digitized
standing up, another person gets only his/her hands digitzed.
The two images are combined on one screen which both participants can
see.  When the "hands" touch the "body" (using collision-detection
on the combined image), some sort of "tickling noise" is heard.

-Tom