From: minerva!diego@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Diego Montefusco) Subject: Sci-VW: Re: INDUSTRY: Virtuality in Australia!! Date: Tue, 30 Jun 92 14:59:16 CET > From: t9114209@phillip.edu.au > Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: Virtuality in Australia!! > Date: 30 Jun 92 01:59:08 GMT > Organization: Phillip Institute of Tech, Melbourne > > >> > >> Tell me / net.us, do you get different images for each eye for `true' 3D? > >> > >> Damon > > > > I know for certain Virtuality gives two DIFFERENT images for each eye. > > Was it _different_ as in true 3d, ie: taken from a different angle, or the > same image moved slighly accross, giving 2 _different_ images but not true > 3d ? (Just to remove some confusion by your definition of different) I have been told the two images are actually taken from TWO DIFFERENT POINTS of view. Otherwise why use TWO TI32040 cards? They could have used just one and use the Amiga blitter coprocessor or something else less expensive than a TI graphic processor to SHIFT the image some pixels across... > > Nonetheless I find their helmet really claustrophobic! > > I thought I would get a headache from looking at VR screens and all that > head gear. I _did_ get a headache, but it was from doing up the helmet to > tight to keep it firmly in place. 8-( > Beyond this kind of headache (!!), I found that looking inside a W Ind helmet is like peering through the most narrow motocycle helmet, and furthermore is just like looking at two magnified LCD... The field of view is the smallest around (about 90 vs 108 of VPL EyePhone LX, or 140 of CyberFaceII). You can always see two perfectly round lens in front of you, while LEEP and similar lens follow more the human face shape around the eyes. Diego ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diego Montefusco minerva!diego@hp3.sm.dsi.unimi.it Via Pirano 4 20127 Milano montefus@ghost.dsi.unimi.it ITALIA -----------------------------------------------------------------------------