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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Thomas Furness to Speak at UW Visualization Seminar, 12/12.
Summary: Director of HIT Lab on Visualization and Virtual Worlds
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Date: 10 Dec 90 03:01:06 GMT
Expires: 13 Dec 90 08:00:00 GMT
Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle
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From graphics-seminar-request@cs.washington.edu Sun Dec  9 18:39:29 1990
From: Werner Stuetzle <wxs@stat.washington.edu>
Subject: Seminar on Scientific Computing and Visualization
 
 
          SEMINAR ON SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND VISUALIZATION
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TITLE:    Visualization in Virtual Space
 
SPEAKER:  Tom Furness, Department of Industrial Engineering, UW.
 
TIME:     Wednesday, December 12, 1990, 4:00pm
 
PLACE:    Thomson 101, University of Washington (Seattle)
 
ABSTRACT:
 
Virtual interface technology provides a new approach for coupling
computer-generated information to the human senses.  Since these
devices can produce a circumambience of visual and auditory
information, it is possible to create virtual worlds which are
"inhabited" by the participant and "experienced" intuitively using the
natural three-dimensional architecture of the human body.  These
factors empower the virtual interface with an unprecedented efficiency
in communicating computer-generated graphical information, making it
ideal for visualization of complex data spaces.