From: salnick@dejavu.spk.wa.us (Bob Salnick)
Subject: Re:  VR theory?
Date: 18 Sep 91 04:40:08 GMT


 
In article <1991Sep12.181705.17181@milton.u.washington.edu> tbm19061@uxa.cso.
uiuc.edu (Thomas B MacIukenas) writes:
 
>How about other types of Virtual Reality than just copies of our
>world?  It seems that all the work in Virtual Reality is really
>focused on producing a Virtual Copy of Reality (hence the need
>for 3-dimensions, tap-dancing on airplane wings, etc.).
>
>I would be interested to know if anyone is working on other
>types of Virtual Reality.
>
>Here are some ideas I've had.  Probably none of them are actually
>useful, but they would be interesting to explore:
>
>     4 or more dimensions
>     Non-newtonian physical laws (in other words, make up your
>       own Theory of Everything and see what types of Universes
>       you get).
>     Non-space-oriented worlds.  By this I mean that our world
>       is oriented around the "objects existing in empty space"
>       model.  How about something completely different?
>--
 
Me too.  I work for a large industrial concern (read CONSERVATIVE).  I would
like to see VR used as a process machinery interface:  let the operators see
the world from the point of view of the piece of metal being processed,
magnify machine distortions by 1,000,000x , etc.  As far as I know, no one
is doing this... I wasn't able to whip up much enthusiasm at last spring's
conference at UW's HITLab either.
 
bob
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