Labels:text | screenshot | number | font | document | parallel | menu | black and white OCR: VIRTUAL REALITY (continued) Reader Circle #97 Product Vendor Description Additional Information Requirements Price ESP (Eye Slaved Pointer) ISCAN, Inc Operator selects icons on PC screen via eye-imaging sub- Eye-controlled input device, IBM PC- system and eye-tracking electronics. based system. Contact vendor $12,500 Extended Range Ascension Technology Transmitter (ERT) Corporation Long-range magnetic fieki generator for use with tracker. Tracks targets in room-sized area. Application-dependent Contact vendor Flock of Birds ™M Ascension Technology Corporation Multi-receiver, 6 degrees-of-freedom motion-tracker. Tracks up to 30 receivers simultaneously. Application-dependent $2,695+ Future Bike AMUSITRONIX PC-controlled, virtual reality, HMD-based experience. Arcade ready. 586 PC $18,000 GesturePlus ™ Virtual Technologies Gesture recognition system recognizes hand imput. Uses state-of-the-art recognition technol- Programmable. Integrates with applications. ogy. Contact vendor Contact vendor Head Mounted Displays CM Research Design and development of custom HMDs for VR systems, Instrumentation for head and eye position. (HMD) Lightweight foam structures. Contact vendor Contact research, and space. Vacuum form plastic enclosures. vendor HEADHUNTER SCAN, Inc Eye/head tracking system. Helmet-mounted sensors track eye/head position. For VR and man-machine interface. Contact vendor $30,000- $50,000 Holotrack MVR * High-speed head tracker fits on all head-mounted displays (HMDs) for virtual reality PC software compatible. $595 ImageCELs Botanicals IMAGETECTS Over 200 real trees, shrubs, etc. High resolution, 32-bit. All Available online. Contact for free online regions, various sizes and seasons. Free files interface disk. PC, Mac, Unix, SGI, AMIGA $10+ ImageCELs CD-ROM (PC, IMAGETECTS 1,150 real-world textures and objects. Buildings, industrial All textures seamless and tileable. Mac, Unix, Amiga) surfaces and finishes, landscapes, etc. Royalty-free. Fourteen file formats. 8/16/24 bit. $495 ImageCELs People IMAGETECTS 72 people from all walks of life in various postures including walking, sitting, standing, etc. for VR graphics. 2D, high resolution 32-bit on CD-ROM. $99 ImageCELs VGA CD-ROM 240 real-world textures and objects. Indoor/outdoor materials, Subset of ImageCELs CD-ROM. Ten tile PC, Mac, Unix, Amiga) IMAGETECTS surfaces, and finishes. 256 colors per image. formats, seamless, tileable, and royalty-free. $99 Mandala VR Sports & Step inside, unencumbered virtual environments. Interac-tion 24-bit graphics and laser disc video inte- Games Module The Vivid Group * with animation using realtime video image and module. grated. Children's module available. $29,000 MicroScribe-3D (PC, Mac, SGI) Immersion Corporation 3D digitizer system with spatial accuracy of 0.012. Ideal for animators and VR developers. $2,500 MRG 2 Liquid Image Wide field-of-view, robust head-mounted display suitable for Compatible with NTSC and PAL video Corporation high traffic VR applications. standard. NTSC or PAL video output $3,499 MRG 3C Liquid Image Wide field-of-view, high resolution head-mounted display. 768 Corporation X 556. Biocular head-mounted display. NTSC or PAL video output $5,500 MRG 4 Liquid Image Corporation Arcade-hardened HMD suitable for unsupervised use. Compatible with NTSC and PAL video standard. NTSC or PAL video output $2.195 OPTIMOUSE ISCAN, Inc Remote cursor control system. Lightweight handheld pointer functions as a remote mouse. IBM PC-based system. Contact vendor $995 Orion VR System Atlantis Cyberspace Virtual reality entertainment platform. Eleven-player network support. Force feedback. Kaiser VIM 500 HMD. $24,500 PC/Bird Ascension Technology Contact Corporation PC Card-based 3D tracker. vendor SpacePad™ Ascension Technology Corporation Game-pod tracker for VR games. Application-dependent Contac vendor StereoSynthesisTH Digital Media Group Ltd Converts 2D images, film and video to stereoscopic 3D for Available as a service, custom system, or projection, 3D video, VR helmets, and other 3D systems. by license. Contact vendor Contact vendor Strata Studio Pro (Mac, Academic Distributing VR 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. Wireframe- Event-based animation uses visible paths Contact PowerMac, Windows) Inc aydiosity and special effects. Professional level. for objects. Educational pricing available. 68K+, Systems 7.x+, 16 MB RAM vendor Strata Vision 3D (Mac, Academic Distributing VR 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. 10 rendering Objects and cameras follow visible 3D PowerMac) 68K+, System 7.x+, 16 MB RAM Contact Inc options from wireframe-raypainting. Entry level. paths. Educational pricing available. vendor Superscape Visualizer Superscape Inc Virtual operating environment. Provides real-time visuali- Achieves high performance on a standard zation of any virtual world or application created in VRT. PC. Price shown is for 10 pack $99 SynchroMaster 100 RGB Spectrum Color field sequential scan converter for HMDs and other VR For use with high-end display devices Contact vendor Contact displays. Bi-directional between RGB parallel and sequential. requiring color field sequential signals vendor TrueSpace 2.x (Windows) Academic Distributing VR-integrated 3D production environment offers organic Creates advanced 3D graphics easily. Contact Inc modeling, fast photo-realistic raytracing, and animation. Educational pricing available 386+, Windows 3.1+, 8 MB RAM vendor Virtual Reality Systems Trans Phonics Inc VR systems consultants and integrators. 3D rendering. VR technology integration, custom design. PC: DOS 6.2, Windows 3.11; Contact animation services, and total systems. Volume discounts. Mac: Systems 7, SGI, IRIS vendor Virtus Walkthrough Pro 2.5 System 7.x, Windows 3.x, VGA or (Mac, Windows, P-Mac) Virtus Corporation 3D multimedia authoring tool features real-time navigation, texture-mapping, and VRML export Color monitor. SVGA $495 Vistaworks (Unix) Loral ADS Software engineering toolset for use in the DIS networked Integrated software includes real-time and SGI, Indigo2 Extreme or Onyx, Contact real-time 3D graphics environment. database modules for DIS visual systems. Loral GT200 vendor VR CD-ROM Revision 1 Network Cybernetics ISO-9660 CD-ROM contains a collection of files on virtual Includes source code, development Any computer with ISO-9660 CD- PC, OS/2, Unix, others) Corporation reality, telerobotics, 3D modelling, and computer simulation. systems, 3D object data, FAQs, and more. ROM support $89+ VR Outpost Atlantis Cyberspace Turkey VR outpost including Orion VR Systems. Contact vendor
