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- From: tomasa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Tomas Arvidsson)
- Subject: Re: INFO: Comments on Uk machines for VR (Well arcade games)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.012141.3566@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, NADA
- References: <1992Jul26.074440.8682@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:50:49 GMT
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- In <1992Jul26.074440.8682@u.washington.edu> S_URIARTE@irav1.ira.uka.de (|S| Juan
- Uriarte) writes:
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- >Has anyone of you heard of the VIRTUALITY (I think) machines?
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- >The stand-up one and another,where you just sat there with 2 standard
- >joysticks.Although they were arcade machines they could have been used for
- >other pourposes.An Amiga 3000 was the heart for the system,assisted by 2 TI
- >graphical coprocessors.The software was distributed by CD-ROM.You had sound AND
- >mocrophones in the headsets.Up to 16 machines could be interconnected.
- >You could have one for $20000!!!
-
- >Is this information correct?
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- The machines are built by a company called W Industries and the heart of each
- system is an 68040 powered Amiga 3000 with two TI34020 graphicprocessors
- (probably two DMI-Resolver cards), one for each eye.
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- There are five different models and the cheapest goes for $29,750+.
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- >Yon
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- /Tomas
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