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From: cjosta@taux01.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
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Date: 25 Dec 88 09:12:38 GMT
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In article <4479@xenna.Encore.COM> bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>This past week I attended a talk by Scott Fisher of NASA/AMES hosted
>by the Boston Computer Society entitled "Artificial Reality".
>
>He is working on a system which uses a helmet with stereoscopic
>displays and head-motion sensors and data gloves (gloves you put on to
>interact with what you are viewing in the helmet.)

The September 1988 Issue of Byte has an article on this input/output
system being designed at NASA.  By the way, the glove is called
DataGlove and is designed by VPL Research.  They also sell a product
called DataSuit.  This is an extension of DataGlove and it consists of
sensors in a suit that covers the user's whole body.  I won't go into
more detail.  You can just read the Byte article.  It's called "Between
Man and Machine."

In the same magazine, there is also a whole section on display
technology.  In the article "Face to Face" a 3D display system that is
being developed at TI is described.   The system is based on a rotating
disk, but this disk rotates at speeds of less than 10 Hz, so I don't
think it would have the low pitch humming noise that I imagine the BBN
Spacegraph has.  This system is described as a "real-time,
auto-stereoscopic, multiplanar three-dimensional display system." In
the prototype, the image can be viewed from any angle, and it has a
resolution of 500 by 500 pixels with a 4 inch depth of field.  Again,
see the article for more details.
-- 
Jonathan Sweedler  ===  National Semiconductor Israel
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