From poup@mic.atr.co.jp Sun May 10 11:51:51 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 LAA10057 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 11:51:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (yHEu72RZ7OrBxpU5J/eECHLWqje9b83/@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA15767 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 11:51:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailhost.mic.atr.co.jp (mic.atr.co.jp [133.186.20.201]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA04888 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Sun, 10 May 1998 08:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop.mic.atr.co.jp by mailhost.mic.atr.co.jp (8.8.8+2.7Wbeta7/3.6W) id AAA08509; Mon, 11 May 1998 00:51:11 +0900 (JST) Received: from mic.atr.co.jp by pop.mic.atr.co.jp (8.8.8+2.7Wbeta7/3.6W04/07/98) id AAA01918; Mon, 11 May 1998 00:51:11 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3556ACBD.C6D695BE@mic.atr.co.jp> Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:46:05 -0700 From: Ivan Poupyrev Organization: MIC Labs, ATR International X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: Re: HMD Application Areas References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Mark Billinghurst wrote: > > 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). In fact there are more areas where people are already wearing helmets and HMD might naturally fit in them: pilots, constraction and factory workers, motorcyclists. Relating to motorcyclists, I read somewhere that in some of the prefectures in Japan one of the necessary requirement for getting motorcycle driving license is to pass test on VR simulator. Ivan