From mconway@microsoft.com Fri May 22 12:58:29 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 MAA27725 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 12:58:25 -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 MAA17170 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 12:58:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail4.microsoft.com (mail4.microsoft.com [131.107.3.29]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA24624 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Fri, 22 May 1998 09:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by INET-04-IMC with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Fri, 22 May 1998 09:58:37 -0700 Message-ID: <4FD6422BE942D111908D00805F3158DF05B2671F@red-msg-52.dns.microsoft.com> From: Matt Conway To: "'Jeff Pierce'" , "3D UI List (E-mail)" <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu> Subject: RE: "flying" in VEs Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 09:58:26 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Status: RO > > Stay tuned on this. There's apparently a company in > Pittsburgh doing work > on devices that, <>> Actually, this wasn't just me speculating with my Sci-Fi hat on, as I do so often, *ahem* -- there are people at the Wright Patterson Airforce Base in Dayton that have been doing this sort of thing for a few years. Lawrence Hettinger is one of the primary contacts for this work -- is he involved in the Pittsburgh work? > Another point about a "real" flying interface - flapping and > keeping your > arms extended gets tiresome fairly quickly, so I wouldn't plan a long > experience around this interaction technique. just so. This is NOT a 10-hour-a-day interaction technique. More like, oh....I dunno...maybe more of a DisneyQuest sort of thing. ;) Matt