From grof@hitl.washington.edu Fri May 8 17:06:41 1998 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA21274 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 17:06:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (IrOZazdYqjE72tdCXiBmSVmD4yYDDixZ@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA22759 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 17:06:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from siksik.hitl.washington.edu (siksik.hitl.washington.edu [128.95.74.199]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA07493 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:06:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:06:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Billinghurst To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: HMD Application Areas Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO I am jumping into the middle of this thread/discussion, but I ahve seen anyone mention the medical domain as an application area for HMDs - many surgeons already perform operations wearing HMDs or by looking through microscopes (eg eye surgeons, laprosdcopic surgeons). Granted this won't get HMD into the hands of the consumer, but it's a pretty valuable niche market .. These same surgeons are starting to use AR/VR techniques in training and for surgical enhancement .. Mark +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mark Billinghurst | Human Interface Technology Laboratory grof@hitl.washington.edu | University of Washington, Box 352-142 fax: +1-206-543-5380 | Seattle, WA 98195