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Terence, I see VR as a wonderful planning tool- as you describe-. The Windows version of the sense8 tool seems like a good direction for this year. Penn State is about to build a vr setup in their Arch. Lab. using aan SGI and the StereoGraphics glasses and a projection system. This way an entire class can put on glasses and critique a design. The HMD route was just to expensive, cumbersome and has problems with sanitation. Now in the College of engineering there is a project going on that I helped facilitate using the CDk to develop some AE lighting design software that is an Acad add-on.(or will be) Also seems that the HMD is not real comfortable for several hours of wearing. We need better 3d interfaces and a way to easily position the place your viewing from. I envision a clear globe with the model inside and anywhere I touch I get that Vpoint on the screen of the model. More later– Off to a wedding of a former student. He is about to enter a New kind of reality.<g> PAT