From: stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: WHO: U of I's ACM SigVR Project
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 15:51:53 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Jun17.155153.4259@unocal.com>
Organization: Unocal Corporation



In article <1992Jun17.075510.16835@u.washington.edu> patel@suna0.cs.uiuc.edu 
(Anand C Patel) writes:

>Our group's current aim is the development of a virtual reality
>system, from the ground up -- starting with either the i860 processor
>or the Motorola 88110 processor.

Is special purpose computing hardware the bottleneck?  I've seen many custom
designs torpedoed over the years, e.g. LISP machines, as general purpose
equipment continue their relentless doubling in power every year or two.

There may be some bottlenecks in good I/O devices, e.g. displays, position
sensors and in software construction kits for formulating virtual worlds
and their rendering.  More opinions as to what is important to pursue?