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- From: deloura@cs.unc.edu (Mark A. DeLoura)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: INFO?: VR directional sensor functionality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.071455.22933@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:59:03 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec22.071455.22933
- References: <1992Dec21.095312.29042@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- In article <1992Dec21.095312.29042@u.washington.edu>
- dream!Marcus_Brodeur@bikini.cis.ufl.edu (Marcus Brodeur) writes:
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- >In a message dated Sun 20 Dec 92 6:34, Diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it
- >(dieg wrote:
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- > D> I'm quite sure Virtuality systems use common Polhemus tracking
- > D> systems.
- >
- >Um, I'm not 100% certain, but from what I've been told by the folks
- >running the Virtuality games at exhibitions, etc., they use an
- >Ascension tracker for the HMD. I may be in error, but several
- >different sources have told me this. Absolutely no one has suggested
- >that they are using the Polhemus trackers.
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- Then let me be the first. :)
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- The two machines located at "Quarters", in Kirkland, Washington (USA),
- use Polhemus trackers.
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- Either that, or the programmer who put "Initializing Polhemi..." into
- the Amiga startup sequence was a complete bozo. ;)
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- Perhaps they've recently swapped over to Ascension, though, because
- these machines have been there for quite awhile now.
-
- ---Mark
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