From: fuller@aedc-vax.af.mil
Subject: APPS: MIS VR Application?
Date: 14 Aug 92 07:21:12 GMT
Organization: Arnold Engineering Development Center



Greetings.  My name is Sean Fuller.  I work for the Arnold Engineering
and Development Center on the Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee.  I
am a database administrator there.  Concurrently I am pusuing a
Masters degree in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee
Space Institute with an emphasis in Artificial Intelligence.  I just
recently found this news group and I am very enthusiastic.  I have
been following the developments in Virtual Reality for several years
now.

Now that I have the introduction over with, you may ask yourself,
"What is a Database Administrator doing in a VR news group?"  Well,
I'll tell ya.  I have been trying for some time now to interest some
of the budgeting powers that be to turn loose of some money to try to
do something with this new technology, and I am looking for ideas
about how VR can be applied to areas that are a lot different from the
typical CAD/Scientific stuff.

I would like any ideas I can get about how VR can be used for MIS type
applications.  If I can find one, I just may be able to create a real
project here.  Any input I get would be great.  We'll just consider
this a big electronic brain-storming session.  Please mail your
responses directly to me, and I will summarize them and post to this
group.

My primary concern is with the mapping between a typical MIS
application and VR.  Typical applications include; budgeting, accounts
receivable, inventory tracking, work management, project planning,
executive information systems, etc.

Thank you for your replies.


Sean Fuller
Database Administrator
Arnold Engineering and Development Center
FULLER@aedc-vax.af.mil
(615)454-5312