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- Subject: Re: Home brew VR?
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- From: phutter@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu (PATRICK HUTTER)
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:39:37 GMT
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- In article <40567@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ph600fbr@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (James Dehnert) writes:
- >Subject: Re: Home brew VR?
- >From: ph600fbr@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (James Dehnert)
- >Date: 4 Nov 92 22:11:46 GMT
-
- >> 16 MB RAM
- >> 8-bit color
- >>
- >>There are various coroporations out there which have equipment for these
- > Why not get a NeXT? It comes with the Renderman engine in OS3.0.
- > I have been hacking at a program that will take one sceen built with
- >3D Reality and generate a sterio pair for viewing. Eventually I'd like to
- >invest in a pair of NeXT Dimension boards to drive individual eye views.
- > I'll probably have to wait a while before anything comes of this project.
- >The programing part seems to be simple enough, but the NeXT Dimension boards
- >are a bit out of my price range, + they never did impliment the JPEG
- >compression in the board. If someone makes a good fast 16bit color card
- >for the NeXT that may change things a bit.
- > If speed is your concern, remember that you can get a 33Mhz 040 in the
- >NeXT right now, load it up to 64 Meg of ram and your CPU will fly! Add
- >to that the i860 on the NeXT Dimension and you have some real horse power.
- > It also seems to me that one could use the DSP chip to deal with data
- >glove ( or whatever ) input. Hmmmm.
-
- > Zeke
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- >= James "Zeke" Dehnert zeke@mode.css.gov =
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- Listen, for the amount of money you are asking people to invest in such a
- system, they might just as well go for the Silicon Graphics, Inc. Iris
- Indigo with 32 MB of RAM, 340 MB hard disk, CD-ROM drive, and the SENSE-8
- Virtuality kit. This one is most definitely the leader in the VR market
- except for high-end super-powered mainframes or supercomputers.
-
-
- Greetings,
-
- Patrick
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