From mconway@microsoft.com Fri Feb 26 12:55:56 1999 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA17369 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:55:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from asbestos.hitl.washington.edu (hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu [128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA13062; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:55:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail3.microsoft.com (mail3.microsoft.com [131.107.3.123]) by asbestos.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA09227 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 17:55:01 GMT Received: by mail3.microsoft.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2524.0) id ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:54:31 -0800 Message-ID: <4FD6422BE942D111908D00805F3158DF0D953F11@RED-MSG-52> From: Matt Conway To: "'Kevin Curry'" , cdshaw@umbilicus.artsci.washington.edu Cc: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: RE: hi all Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:54:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2524.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Status: RO Yep! Caves are pretty cool, but what I'm specifically looking for is interaction techniques (specifically navigation techniques that modulate the user's speed based on distance to objects in the environment), not hardware devices. Thanks for the pointer though. -- Matt ___________________________________________________ Matt Conway User Interface Research Group Microsoft Research http://www.research.microsoft.com/~mconway/ -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Curry [mailto:kcurry@csgrad.cs.vt.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 9:23 PM To: cdshaw@umbilicus.artsci.washington.edu Cc: Matt Conway; 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: Re: hi all FYI: in the CAVE we use a 3D device called a wand. It has 3 buttons and thumbpad joystick. you can read more about it here: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/VR/Docs/CAVE_Current/CAVEGuide.html#equipment.wa nd and see a bad picture of it here: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/VR/PapeClass/components.html (maybe it will help) KMC -- Kevin M. Curry Graduate Research Assistant http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~kcurry VT-CAVE M.S. Candidate C.S.A., VPI & SU ** SPAM Notice: http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~kcurry/spamoff.htm **