From: skr@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: TECH: VR, PHIGS, SpaceBalls
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 92 14:54:32 WET DST


VR and PHIGS+, and SPACEBALL code
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couple of weeks ago i posted:

> anyone out there doing VR with PHIGS+.  want to tell me 
> about it?

no. of responses to message = 1 (-thanks for the MR Toolkit info Chris)


..okay so minimalist messages aren't responded to...see if this works.

hello

we've a two and a half year funded project here at edinburgh, looking at 
perception and action in VR environments from a perceptual psychology 
point of view, eg. how best to support depth perception - use of 
textures, binocular display etc -, how people perform with varying 
amounts of lag in a system etc.

our VR graphics engine is a Real World Graphics 2 channel,'Super Reality' 
system (8 i860s + 64MB of DRAM per channel), hosted by a 386.  The 
system is programmed using C and 'RGE' -> PHIGS+ with lots of clever 
extra bits.  before we try to write our own VR system we were 
wondering..is there anyone else out there doing VR with PHIGS+.  if so 
what are you doing?  do you have any useful code, tips, ideas..

on the subject of code, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CODE FOR THE SPACEBALL?  
we just got ours, opened the box and found nothing but a few useless 
pieces of paper and a disk with a couple of programs that don't work!  if 
anyone could let me have some code for a PC i'd much appreciate it.

(it did occur to me that the no. of responses i got might be due to my UK 
email address, do people have problems sending email to the UK?  if so 
then reply to the group, i should n't think people will object and it would 
highlight a problem anyway)

simon

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simon rushton                                            tel. 031-650-3371/3426 
"perception and action in vr" project,     email skr@uk.ac.edinburgh.castle
 psychology, edinburgh university                      s_rushton@uk.ac.lut.hicom

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"reality is where you perceive what you perceive to be real
dreaming is where you perceive what you imagine to be real
day-dreaming is where you imagine what you imagine to be real
virtual-reality is where you imagine what you perceive to be real !?"
(my attempt at a naff, pretentious signature, 92)
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