hentsche@serss0.fiu.edu (Erich Hentschel) (05/10/91)
About a month ago I posted my notes on VR. A few people
pointed out some mistakes and I would like to post
those now. I would also like to take this chance to
apologize for such mistakes, no harm intended.
And, of course, thank you very much for all of you
who took the time to read the notes, and inform me
of the mistakes, in particular to Mike Mcgreevy for
providing me with:
"information you overlooked in your virtual
reality paper and bibliography".
From: autodesk!carlt@fernwood.mpk.ca.us (Carl Tollander)
A minor correction to your comment about Autodesk's system. The graphics
board we have been using in demonstrations over the past year is an
off-the shelf Matrox SM1281 and not a custom board as you mentioned.
Matrox will do a modification to the board to make it easier to drive
the VPL Eyephones, although this is not strictly necessary.
Matrox no longer makes the SM1281 and we are experimenting with a variety
of other boards from them and other manufacturers for use with future
cyberspace products.
Autodesk has a strong committment to the commercialization of cyberspace
technologies. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further
questions.
Carl Tollander
Autodesk Cyberspace Project
email: carlt@autodesk.com
From: pratt@suns2.cs.nps.navy.mil (david pratt)
NASA had nothing to do with SIMNET, that was a DARPA project,
PM-TRADE in Orlando now handles alot of it.
Scott Foster, not Scott Fisher, worked on the 3D sound.
/* Sorry Mr. Foster */
Dave
From: Matt Fitzgibbon <matt@Think.COM>
I wrote:
" When MIT's new School of Computer Science building was designed,
at Chappel Hill, North Carolina, a virtual version was created."
Matt write:
The project and building that you describe are NOT ASSOCIATED
WITH MIT. The building is Sitterson Hall, housing the
Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina
at _Chapel_ Hill. The first model of the building was built in
1986, with Walkthrough conducted on IKONAS framebuffers and
later on the Pixel-planes 4 graphics engine which Drs. Fuchs and Poulton
constructed at UNC. We moved in to the actual building in 1987.
-Matt Fitzgibbon (matt@think.com) Thinking Machines Corporation
Graphics & Visualization Group Cambridge, Ma 02142
Thanks again, and now I'll have to actually integrate this to
the paper.
hentsche@serss0
Erich Hentschel
Florida International University
School of Computer Science