From: chris@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chris Robertson)
Subject: Re: New VR system info
Date:   Sat, 2 Feb 1991 19:34:13 -0400
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada



David J Frerichs (frerichs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) writes:

> For those of you who are interested in the consumer-priced VR system
> that I had mentioned on this newsgroup a few days ago...
>
> I have just been told that the prototype of the system will be on display
> to the public in the first half of March.  Due to the lack of more specific


I'm not sure if this is the one you mean, but I'm thinking of the one
described in this group within the last few weeks from Britain.

Today, in a local paper, I saw a picture of it in action at a Consumer 
Electronics Show.  A woman was pictured in front of what i imagine was
the CPU casing.  There was a screen nearby, presumably for the benefit
of onlookers.  The woman was manipulating a rather normal looking sort
of joystick, although it was fairly large.  The grip looked to have
finger controls.  The most intriguing part, though, was the head-piece
she wore.

The caption was titled "Camaro Head", and you know, it really is the
best description for the thing.  Picture the front end of a low sports
car cut off where the windshield would start.  Scale it down to about
the width of your head, and mount it squarly where you would a pair of
ski goggles.  It sticks out about 30 cm in front.

The contraption was apparently not worth being included in the small
accompanying article (beside the funnies page, no less :), but the 
caption said it was a device "allowing the user to experience and influence
artificial events".  Short, and to the point, i guess.