william@hitl.vrnet.washington.edu (William Bricken) (09/02/90)
9/1/90 SENIOR PROGRAMMER POSITIONS at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory. HITL is hiring virtual reality programmers. We're looking for a couple of very good programmers to join the team that is designing and implementing the HITL Virtual Environment Operating Shell. Currently, the VEOS wraps around UNIX to create an operating system specialized in providing resource and communication management to entities within the virtual environment. Entities are objects running a sense- process-act loop and containing a spatial structure which can be displayed in a multisensory inclusive environment. Everything in our VR, including space itself, is an entity. The VEOS includes a suite of virtual world tools for coordinating databases, distributed process and display resources, and entity interactions. The Virtual Body tool, for example, connects signals from behavior transducers (i/o hardware such as head-coupled displays, hand position sensors, wands, spaceballs, and voice command systems) to inhabited entities. The Physiological Model tool connects display parameters to physical information about the participant (such as head and eye position, shape of ear, current pulse rate, and selected perceptual filters). The World Assembly tool coordinates construction tools (such as CAD packages), dynamic interaction process specifications, and rendering software. If you have some large successful programming projects behind you, and deep experience in several of our areas of interest (modern languages, formal systems, operating systems, real-time processing, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, distributed computation, parallelism, rapid prototyping, visual programming, and device drivers), we invite you to send a resume and a code sample to William Bricken HITL University of Washington, FU-20 Seattle, WA 98125 Inquiries to: william@hitl.vrnet.washington.edu 206-543-5075