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From: decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!hlr@uunet.UU.NET (Howard Rheingold)
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Subject: Re: VR and the handicapped
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Date: 27 Oct 90 16:16:01 GMT
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bgrahame@cix (Bob Grahame) writes:


>It seems to me that VR so far is 95% Visual 5% Tactile.


Very good work on tactile and haptic elements of VR is being conducted
at the University of North Carolina, at the Media Lab, and at ACROE in
Grenoble, France. Also some work in England. Frederick Brooks and his
associates at UNC, Margaret Minsky at Media Lab, Annie Luciani and
Claude Cadoz and Jean-Loup Florens in Grenoble. Japanese researchers
at MITI and ATR are also interested, although I did not see any of
their prototypes in this direction. The definitive article about the
use of haptic feedback in scientific visualization was Frederick
Brooks' presentation at SIGGRAPH. It is in the 1990 Siggraph
proceedings, available from the ACM.