#Virtual Reality
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I read the news in a recent copy of CU Amiga. It was a short
paragraph on W. Industries idea to release a home version of their
Virtuality HMD for the Amiga. As I understand it, an Amiga 3000 acts
as the controller for the commercial system. They have special
graphics engines for providing the image output. They haven't
mentioned a price as yet. However, you can bet that the price will be
proporsional to the resolution of the HMD. I've played Exorex about
30 times, and I've got to admit I'm hooked. I just hope that the
home version is at least as good. Of course that'll cost a fat penny
or three.
Regardless of price, having an Amiga HMD is going to be very
important for the future of the Amiga. Obviously the future of
computers lies in the use of Virtual Reality. I hope that they make
world generation easy for the user. It would be nice to have a large
base of virtual-ware for the Amiga, not just games. Consider the
operating system used by Jurasic Park.
I think W. Industries will bring us a winner. I, unfortunately, will
be out on the big blue ocean for the next five months; No Amiga either. So I
hope you guys can fill me in on whats happens with the HMD.
– Craig Randall –
– Motorola Inside ! –
'CU Amiga'? Que? What magazine was that?
I wonder if it'll incorporate any of the Sega headgear technology. (Seems
like a good way to cut down the cost of the display/tracking device.)
I'll be looking forward to it.
Keep On Toastin'
Erik Flom
P.S. Happy Sailing! :^)
You haven't seen CU Amiga?
Geez, talk about culture shock! Try and get a peek at an issue, whole
different world. It's an English Product. Some have labeled it as a
magazine 🙂
Ah, a british mag.
They are a darn sight different from the standard american Amiga
magazines. :^)
Thanks,
Erik Flom
Yep, the British mag's are a little different. However, some of them have
more informative article's than anything I have seen out of AmigaWorld or
Amazing. I think it's Amiga Shopper that has run a column the last few
months on Neural networks and fuzzy logic. Good reading and try to find
that in AmigaWorld <g>.
// John – (Flying via AutoPilot)
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What!
Can you dig up the name of the Brit-Rag that carried the Neural net
stuff?
–Paul < Motorola Inside >
Yep, I think it is Amiga Shopper that was doing the Neural net articles.
They might be done with the series now, but in the June issue they have an
article on Chaos and fractral landscape generation. Hmmm….I wonder where
Clint Woeltjen got the name for his company <g>. Another British mag that
I like is Amiga Format. I don't get the chance to pick them up too often
because we don't have a local Amiga dealer, but when I'm up in Spokane I
usually spend about $60 just on magazines <g>.
// John – (Flying via AutoPilot)
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John:
As I haven't yet seen Amiga Shopper, it wasn't from there. <grin>
Chaocity was registered in Santa Maria in April. The name came to me after
looking at my office and saying "Gee! What a state of total Chaos! It's so
bad, it must be the Capitol City! Chaos-City! That sounds good, let's
shorten it to Chaocity!" Now I have reason to maintain the disorder in my
office, I don't want to mis-represent my company. <grin>
Clint <Chaocity>
Hehe–well then your company name could probably apply to half the user's
on here. Including mine <g>. Don't you just hate it when you walk into
someone's office or computer room and find everything nice and neat. I
always get the impression they never actually do any work except keeping
their office nice and neat <g>.
// John – (Flying via AutoPilot)
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John:
Most creative people that I have met are slobs like me. <grin> It
just seems to be such a waste of effort to spend time cleaning that could
be spent more productively. Anyway, whenever I clean up, I can't find
everything for weeks afterward. <sigh> Anyway, it's a neat excuse. <grin>
Clint <Chaocity>
Clint <Chaocity>
Clint,
>>"Most creative people that I have met are slobs like me."<<
Ah, I feel so much better now! 😉
<knocking over tall, neat stack of floppies>
-Dave (via AutoPilot)
>Most creative people that I have met are slobs like me<
So thats what I am…..creative…..I can't wait to tell my mother.
Charlie Badalati
On AutoPilot, in Wurselen, Germany
John,
Both Amiga Shopper and Amiga Format are from the same publisher – Future
Publishing in the town of Bath, England. They have a third Amiga magazine
– Amiga Power. Amiga power is games only, Format is mixed, while Shopper
is serious (i.e. NO games). Amazingly, all three seem to have healthy
circulation figures, despite the obvious overlap of Format into the domain
of the other two, and despite the outside competition – Amiga Computing,
CU Amiga, Amiga User International, and a whole rash of Amiga games
magazines.
Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Well I didn't realize Amiga Shopper and Amiga Format were from the same
company, but it makes sense seeing that they have ad's for the other
magazine in each issue. I imagine they have a few Amiga magazines in
Germany also, but since my German is not the best in the world, I would
have some difficulty in reading them <g>.
// John – (Flying via AutoPilot)
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I can find lots of examples of 'Fuzzy logic' in those magazines you
mentioned.
Unfortunately, it seems the writers/editors are USING it, not writing
about it! :^)
Just Kidding! :^)
Keep On Toastin'
Erik Flom
John,
If you like that kind of reading, may I suggest joining the IEEE and
signing up for their "Computer" magazine for those in the software
engineering sectio of the society. Very good articles on leading edge
technologies and problems. Very interesting issue this month as it
focuses on Hetergenous Processing Computers (HPC). Each month's issue has
a focus topic to which all the articles are related. One time there was a
focus on image processing an moving image processing problems. Very good
indepth to the bit level discussion of JPEG and MPEG.
wmc – via Autopilot!