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From: azuma@cs.unc.edu (Ronald Azuma)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: datasuit- need information
Message-ID: <1991May7.224705.27929@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 17:08:18 GMT
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In article <1991May6.210517.22357@milton.u.washington.edu> gbnewby@rodan.
acs.syr.edu (Gregory B. Newby) writes:

>In article <1991Apr19.213539.24941@milton.u.washington.edu> robertl@skat.usc.
>edu (Robert Letterman) writes:
>
>>I am looking for information on a so called datasuit.  From what I
>>understand it can be worn by a person and that their movements can be
>>recorded by a computer.  I am interested in whether this suit could be
>>used to control a 3D model for computer animation purposes.

I've seen a film of a live play given in Japan where an actress wore
a datasuit and walked around on stage, using her motions to control a
computer-generated model in real-time.  The computer images were projected
onto a large screen above the stage.  It worked, more or less, but the lag 
was very noticable, and the model's motions did not match the actress' motions 
very closely.

>it, and I'm not sure if anyone besides them has one (North Carolina
>at Chapel Hill might.  Does Seattle, O Moderating One?).

        UNC Chapel Hill does not own a datasuit.

                                                Ron Azuma
                                                (azuma@cs.unc.edu)



[MODERATING ONE'S NOTE:  The HIT Lab does not own a Datasuit.  They're
quite expensive contraptions, basically a wetsuit with wiring.  No
immediate applications -- mostly demo's -- require such all-encompassing
gear, at least at this location. -- Bob Jacobson]