Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!hlab From: hucaby@mri.uky.edu (David Hucaby) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: VR in May Video Magazine Message-ID: <1991May2.130226.22302@ms.uky.edu> Date: 2 May 91 13:02:26 GMT References: <1991Apr28.220057.7618@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu (Human Int. Technology Lab) Organization: Univ of Ky MRI Center Lines: 47 Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu In article seguine@girtab.usc.edu (Christopher Seguine) writes: > > AGE (Abrams/Gentile Entrtainment) developers of the powergolve promises >a "total" vr system for less than $400 in 1993... > > Anyone know AGE's adress or phone#??? Yup. It is: Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, Inc. 244 West 54th Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10019 212-757-0700 Try and talk with Christopher Gentile (pronounced like Gen-tilly). I've tried to talk to him before, but I never got past the secretary. They don't seem to like to talk about the PowerGlove. I got pointed back toward VPL instead. VPL says that the PowerGlove lawsuit is now over, but the serial interface box that AGE/VPL was supplying is now in litigation, so it's no longer available. > Logitech (those lame ibm mouse people) are making a dataglove that is >suppose to cost between $500 to $1000. The Logitech cheap-o version of the dataglove seems to be a LONG way off. VPL didn't offer too many details about it - just that it is being thought out now. >I can see it now.... All those ibm clone people using a data glove to move >around in lotus.... Lotus 1-2-'3D', I presume? -- _________ David Hucaby Univ. of Kentucky Medical Center / \ _ ____ Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center / / /_\ \ / /___ Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0084 _____/_____/ / \ \/ /___ (606)-258-4307 hucaby@mri.uky.edu [MODERATOR'S NOTE: It's rumored also that there is renewed litigation between VPL and Virtex (sp?), the Stanford-backed firm that makes a competing form of glove I/O. Can anyone substantiate this? -- Bob Jacobson]