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From: mg@godzilla.cgl.rmit.OZ.AU (Mike Gigante)
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Subject: Re: VR Machine at EOH/UI (Illinois)
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Date: 6 Mar 91 11:09:32 GMT
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The display sounds like it could have been based on the "Private Eye" (TM).
Were the 'goggles' lying on the table like a pair of glasses, with a 
plastic nodule hanging off it?

The Private Eye uses a row of (red) LEDs and an occillating mirror to produce
a "floating" 3D display.

I can drag up something on the private eye if you haven't heard of it
before....

Mike Gigante
ACGC Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Australia

[Moderator's Note:  In an email note, David Frierichs, who has been reporting
on this development, suggests that the display version of the device, having
been "hardened" for use by many people, does not represent the fully developed
version that has been demonstrated on campus.  I hope he will post more about
this to the newsgroup. -- Bob Jacobson]