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From: Matt Conway <mconway@microsoft.com>
To: "'Jeff Pierce'" <jpierce@cs.cmu.edu>, 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: RE: Osmose 
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:03:05 -0700
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Unusual?

also known as a "dissolve" when you do it with film.=20

To be fair, I'm sure that seeing it with head-motion=20
parallax was quite impressive tho.=20



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Pierce [mailto:jpierce@cs.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 1998 11:58 AM
> To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Osmose=20
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> Osmose also experimented with unusual scene transitions. =20
> Rather than jump
> cuts
> or keeping the user in one environment, they experimented=20
> with fading between
> worlds where the worlds would sometimes overlap and intersect=20
> with each other.
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> Jeff
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> At 05:21 PM 5/22/98 +0200, Ernst Kruijff wrote:=20
> >
> > At 22:20 21-05-98 -0400, you wrote:
> > >At 08:27 PM 5/21/98 -0700, Ivan Poupyrev wrote:
> > >>I have not seen similar things implemented. One of the =
interesting
> > >>approaches to flying on VR was done in the Osmose environment. In =

> > >>Osmose flying was modeled after scuba diving. I do not remember
> > >>details but as far as I remember from the talk of the=20
> folks who built
> > >>it breathing is important in scuba diving: you can control your
> > >>movements using it. So, they did similar thing: user puts a
> > >>belt on the chest that can measure it's expansion and contraction
> > >>and thus indirectly measure how deep the user is breathing. This
> > >>is used to fly up and down in virtual space: if you=20
> breath a little
> > >>bit deeper you fly up, to fly forward you tilt your body forward
> > >>or something like this ... There was a short description =
published
> > >>in IEEE CG&A N 6, 1996. The video they showed was rather=20
> interesting.
> > >
> > >There was also an article on Osmose in Wired a year or two=20
> ago.=A0 I forget
> > >the name of the person involved, but last I heard they=20
> were at Softimage.
> >
> >
> > The name of the guy at SoftImage is Char Davies - he used=20
> to be director of
> > visual research.=20
> >
> > The programmer's name was John Harrison, but he doesn't=20
> ring a bell by me.=20
> >
> > Furthermore, if I am not mistaken, one of the SIGGRAPH=20
> conferences issued
> > OSMOSE:
> > and NO, don't bully me around if it isn't there... :-)
> >
> > One more thing - OSMOSE also enabled movement by leaning forward =
and
> > backward to propel
> > back and forth.
> >
> > =A0 -Ernst
> >
> > .................. Ernst Kruijff
> > ................. Westersingel 9
> > .............. 4101 ZG Culemborg
> > ................ The Netherlands
> >
> > ................ (0)345 - 519397
> > .. e.p.c.kruijff@stud.let.ruu.nl
> > .... ernst@kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz
> > .. kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~ernst/
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