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From: dy@cs.brown.edu (D.Y.)
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Subject: Re: We need a a VR primer!
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Date: 3 Apr 91 07:29:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr2.055052.25667@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.was
hington.edu (Bob Jacobson) writes:
>
>The following note was posted by an involuntary lurker, who would like to
>learn more about our field -- but has no easy place to start.  I think he
>makes the case quite well for a primer.  Anyone want to take a shot at 
>this much needed document?
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>
>I'm a lurker, basically because I don't know much about VR, though I would
>like to learn more.  Some of the articles have recently become a teensy bit
>technical, not in terms of difficult concepts--I can follow all that, but
>in terms of abbreviations that, once deciphered, I'm sure make perfect sense.
>A _big_ help for us lurkers would be a VR primer, including basic terminology,
>how performance is measured, what background is best for going in to VR, etc.

I am a lurker myself, and I don't expect to be a VR expert anytime soon.  How-
ever, as I am very much interested in this field, I have chose VR as my lecture
topic for a CS seminar that I am taking. (Student lectures are part of teh
requirement of the course.)  So far i have gathered quite a stack of reading
material for the lecture but I haven't had the time to go through them yet.
When the time comes, I will read as much as I can and come up with some 
lecture notes.

Since the lecture will be more or less a primer kind of thing, if anybody's
interested I can organize the lecture notes into an article and post it.
Won't be too interesting to the experts, but might be of some value to the
novices.

BTW, since I am a computer graphics person and the seminar is a graphics
seminar, the lecture would most likely be heavy on the graphics part of VR 
(i.e., visualization).  If people are interested please tell me.

Later,

David



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