From: bluefire@well.sf.ca.us (Bob Jacobson)
Subject: Re: Where are the auto manufacturers?
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 08:29:27 GMT
Organization: WORLDESIGN, Seattle



In article <1992Jun11.074751.8679@u.washington.edu> psantangeli@alias.com 
(Peter Santangeli) writes:

>The auto manufacturers are living in the same place that most large design
>houses are. The real world.
>
>Virtual Reality is destined to be an important technology. No doubt one day
>people will do a lot of real work with it. That day is not here yet.
>
>Over the last year my collegues and I have had extensive discussions with
>auto manufacturers, and other people who depend on design, about applications
>of VR. The reaction has been (almost without exception) "Neat technology. Let
>us know when it can produce ray traced images at workstation resolution in
>real time."

Peter's remarks do not surprise me.

However, I do know of two large auto manufacturers, one Over There and the
other Over the Other Way, who are using or plan to use virtual interfaces 
in the next year...for process control and training.  And design eventually.

We live in different worlds.

Bob Jacobson