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From: bowman@cc.gatech.edu (Doug Bowman)
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Subject: Re: Balls, hands and stylus's
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:31:42 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <35AC6525.73E0@archit.uni-weimar.de> from "Ernst Kruijff" at Jul 15, 98 10:15:33 am
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I didn't get to chime in here (been on vacation - how come the
list got so busy while I was away? :) ).  We've used a stylus
& physical tablet combination in a couple of projects (Virtual
Venue and Virtual Habitat) to do menus and 2D GUIs with physical
feedback (tablet surface).  I originally saw this idea with
Angus et al's work at Boeing with using a pen&tablet metaphor
to access the Web from inside a VE.

I'm also exploring the use of a stylus combined with a regular
tracker receiver to specify points in 3-space relative to that
receiver (placing markers on a 3D map in my experiment).

Doug

A while back, Ernst Kruijff wrote:
> 
> Hi All!
> 
> Thanks for the comments on two-handed techniques - I have read many of
> your articles on that, which is also why I want to seduce my collegues
> to use 2 handed man. techniques. :-)
> 
> However, we are 'stylus people' here - it makes a lot of sense for an
> architect or designer to use a stylus because it closely resembles the
> traditional design medium, the pencil. The problem here is: it makes, of
> course, no sense to use two stylus's. 
> So, you have to combine it with a glove or something else... Anyone ever
> experimented with a stylus in combination with another input device
> (except the notepad-application things like Virtual Notepad)... ?
> 
>     -Ernst
> 
> -- 
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