From mconway@microsoft.com Fri May 8 16:28:24 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 QAA19909 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 16:28:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (5qZhBWkJ/wl5weKPlN00gMPJ/MIBixxl@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA19546 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 16:28:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail5.microsoft.com (mail5.microsoft.com [131.107.3.31]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA27263 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Fri, 8 May 1998 13:28:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by INET-05-IMC with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Fri, 8 May 1998 13:28:16 -0700 Message-ID: <4FD6422BE942D111908D00805F3158DF05B266A2@red-msg-52.dns.microsoft.com> From: Matt Conway To: 3D UI List <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu> Subject: RE: What is 3D good for? Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 13:28:11 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Status: O > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Billinghurst [mailto:grof@hitl.washington.edu] > On Fri, 8 May 1998, Jeff Pierce wrote: > > > >Offline training/rehearsal - practice real world tasks in VE > > > > Has anyone seen a study that confirms transfer of training > in this area? I <> I don't know if there was ever a formal study run, or a paper published, but I understand that the AR system that Boeing built for the constuction of wiring bundles is still in use. > > I think that transfer of training will be task specific so results may > vary from VE to VE and hence to hard to measure .. The first bit of useful information is "it works" - which is something that wasn't clear back when the first aircraft simulators were built. The second, and harder bit of info is "why it works" or even better "conditions under which it doesn't work"