From: rwzobel@eos.ncsu.edu
Subject: WHO:  Dan Vickers?
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 92 12:56:25 EST


 
Do you happen to have an address for, or know of Daniel Vickers? He worked
with Ivan Sutherland on the first fully functional HMD setup in 1970 at the
U. of Utah. (Rheingold's "Virtual Reality", p.106) My reason for asking
about him is that he developed a "wand" tool for interacting with a
virtual environment for his Ph.D (p. 110-111, and Ch.5 References on p.394).
Supposedly he has been at Lawrence Livermore National Labs since graduating
from Utah.
 
I would be very interested in getting a copy of his dissertation, but it
is apparently unpublished. Do you know of any similar research having to do
with tool creation and/or testing for use in virtual worlds?
 
Thanks-
 
Rick Zobel
NCSU