From ernst@kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz Fri May 22 11:21:48 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 LAA21933 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 11:21:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu ([128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA05456 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 11:21:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from relay.cc.ruu.nl (relay.cc.ruu.nl [131.211.16.32]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA01631 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Fri, 22 May 1998 08:21:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydra.cc.ruu.nl (hydra.cc.ruu.nl [131.211.16.28]) by relay.cc.ruu.nl (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA83082 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Fri, 22 May 1998 17:21:33 +0200 Received: from pop.cc.ruu.nl (hydra.cc.ruu.nl [131.211.16.28]) by hydra.cc.ruu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA69552 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Fri, 22 May 1998 17:21:23 +0200 Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 17:21:23 +0200 Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19970422171718.0e77b1d2@pop.cc.ruu.nl> X-Sender: l9339493@pop.cc.ruu.nl X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu From: Ernst Kruijff Subject: Osmose Status: RO 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 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 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 interesting. > >There was also an article on Osmose in Wired a year or two ago. I forget >the name of the person involved, but last I heard they were at Softimage. The name of the guy at SoftImage is Char Davies - he used to be director of visual research. The programmer's name was John Harrison, but he doesn't ring a bell by me. Furthermore, if I am not mistaken, one of the SIGGRAPH 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. -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/