From: adk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Andrew Kennedy)
Subject: Re: APPS: VR Arcade Manufacturers?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 18:23:58 GMT
Message-ID: <BwL73y.n3x@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh




In article <1992Oct21.081701.27992@u.washington.edu>, 
m26@prism.gatech.edu (MCMURRAY,GARY Vu writes:
> 
> 
> Hello everybody!!
> 
> I was wondering if anybody knew of any companies that produce,sell,
> and/or lease virtual reality games.  These are the games that people
> are using as video games in an arcade environment.  I have seen them
> on the TV before and I know that they are out there.
> 
> If some one out there help me to get in touch with one of these
> companies I would greatly appreciate it!!!
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Gary McMurray
> 
> -- 
> MCMURRAY,GARY V
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> uucp:     ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gm26
> Internet: gm26@prism.gatech.edu

W-Industries produces the virtuality arcade games.  There are quite a few of these
all using HMDs and some sit-in fighter games, but one stand-up-and-move-around 
type.  They look basically like big versions of normal coin-ops.  The guts are
known as "expiality"  this is :

commodore Amiga 3000     (cpu)                     ($3,000 ?)
Twin intel DVI boards    (1 per eye video out)     ($1,500 ?)
VPL eyephone             (video)                  ($10,000 ?)
CD-ROM drive             (games here AFAIK)          ($750)
joysticks,etc.           (input)                     ($100)

this gives an approximately $15-20,000 cost.

That's all the info I have on W's VR machines,
I don't even know their tel. number.
maybe someone else can help

(But They're British (hooray))



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[Co-mod (Mark): The HMD that W-Industries uses isn't actually a VPL model,
	I believe, but one built by W itself.  It has a big handle called
	an "ErgoLock" for fastening it to your head, and the field-of-view 
	to me seems to be a bit narrower.  This is the infamous Camaro-bumper-
	style HMD which will no doubt go down in the history books as the
	most interesting looking HMD. :) ]