From jbisdale@gte.net Thu Jun 10 12:55:22 1999 X-UIDL: 8e4480b3bfcea7ca7654621e8497b453 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 MAA20435 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:55:21 -0400 (EDT) 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 MAA19584; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:55:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp1.gte.net (smtp1.gte.net [207.115.153.30]) by asbestos.hitl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23637 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isdale.gte.net (calnet17-206.gtecablemodem.com [207.175.240.206]) by smtp1.gte.net with SMTP ; id LAA16796 Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:53:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990610095036.008cd320@mail.gte.net> X-Sender: jbisdale@mail.gte.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:50:36 -0700 To: Ivan Poupyrev , 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu From: Jerry Isdale Subject: Re: Hardware (fwd) In-Reply-To: <375FDE77.667655EF@mic.atr.co.jp> References: <3.0.5.32.19990529220046.008ec100@mail.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: RO >> Jerry Isdale wrote: >> >> The Sony Glasstron or Olympus EyeTrek are two of the latest low cost HMDs. ... >Ivan Poupyrev wrote: >Canon has just came up with thier model of low cost HMD. You can check >it out at http://www.canon-sales.co.jp/Product/glasstipe/gt270.html Computer Graphics Systems Development Corp has some interesting pages on the Sony LDI-100 (aka Glasstron) at http://www.cgsd.com http://www.cgsd.com/SonyHMDpages (framed at main URL) These include descriptions and a price/feature list for 27 different versions of these HMDs (PAL, NTSC, SVGA, mono, stereo, etc). There is also a note on the upcoming 60 deg horz. fov version expected "mid-99" (siggraph?). Ivan (or other list members): Are you going to IVR99? Love to hear of any neat ui stuff shown or presented there. (VR News is sending 3000 copies of the June issue for attendees!) ============= Jerry Isdale email: isdale@acm.org web: http://isdale.com/jerry fax: 805 496 8547