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- From: cdshaw@cs.ualberta.ca (Chris Shaw)
- Subject: Re: TECH: VR and Laser Displays
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.084448.5275@u.washington.edu>
- Originator: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu
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- Organization: University of Alberta
- References: <1992Sep4.042219.12555@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:38:23 GMT
- Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu
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- In article <1992Sep4.042219.12555@u.washington.edu> tomg@uunet.UU.NET
- (Thomas Greenwalt) writes:
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- >I found a paper called "Scanned Laser Displays for Head Mounted Displays"
- >by Douglas E. Holmgrem and Warren Robinett from the University of North
- >Carolina that discuss' some aspects of the technologies necessary for a
- >laser scanning display. Its available electronically (email) from the
- >University there.
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- >[MODERATOR'S NOTE: The Holmgren/Robinett paper story is interesting. It
- >seems that the paper explained why a laser-scanned image could not achieve
- >sufficient resolution about one month before the HIT Lab demonstrated a
- >workbench version of the laser scanner that achieved excellent resolution.
- >Just goes to show that empirical proof should undergird every theory, I
- >guess. -- Bob Jacobson]
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- Hey Bob, would you mind telling us what resolution was actually achieved
- by the HITLab laser scanner bench prototype? More to the point, what is
- the scanning mechanism?
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- Chris Shaw University of Alberta
- cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.ca CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !
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- [MODERATOR'S NOTE: I only know I could read text from a computer image
- projected into my eye from the (one-source) laser. I understand that
- the HIT Lab engineer who developed the laser device will report on it
- and demonstrate it at the HIT Lab Industry Symposium later this month,
- and then post a description of its workings. -- Bob Jacobson]
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