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- From: ih3e@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU
- Subject: Lab Report from Univ. of Virginia.
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 91 12:41:01 EST
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- As I am the requestor of such information and greatly!!!!! appreciate your
- efforts in collecting it I will freely discuss what we are doing in our lab.
- Another point of view, especially for universities, is that some private
- firms who are also in the VR field can see what we are doing and maybe
- just maybe would like to sample or hopefully support some of our work.
- This would bring in more funding for the university. Maybe just another
- reson for the university people to truthfully respond to this.
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- We have many projects running at the same time. Our group is about 14 people.
- We are working on text to speech, which is working, but using gesture input
- devices of all different kinds. The major research that remains is the mapping
- of phonetics on the screen and some smaller details.
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- Another project is trying to get VR up and running on two PC, distributing the
- workload between the two, Stereoscopy, sound, and gesture input, and have the
- two computers talk to each other letter the program know what is going on.
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- Some people are rewriting SRGP into smaller and more compact versions for the
- PC and writing more bit editors and drawing utilities based on the SRGP
- package.
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- We have developed a tool that allows us to interactily change the widgets,
- size etc and it is very easy to use. We are trying to bring animation
- to this package. It is a sort or windowing, graphics package with a very low
- startup learn phase. There are also many other activities including support
- for the main projects such as changeing all the routines from polling to
- interrup0t driven etc. My main job right now is to keep the hardware up and
- running and install the new hardware. We are beginning to add voice input and
- sound output to VR programs.
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- I am also working on networking our lab using NETWARE 2.15. I am a sub sys op
- for the university net.
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- Hope this helps and hgood luck. I would appreciate a copy of all the
- returns you get. Thanks Ian.
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- Ian Hoenisch (ih3e@virginia.edu) or (ih3e@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu)
- Graduate Student, Computer Science Department, Thornton Hall,
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442
- Virtual reality is REAL; How real is virtuality?
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