#Current VR status
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I'm writing from Geyer Design, Melbourne, Australia.
Geyer Design is the leading specialist Interior Design company in Australia.
We have recently ordered 3D Studio V4 and will be using it for stills rendering
and animation s a going concern or pipe dream?
Look forward to any replies.
Hi, Peter
Well, from what I am seeing/reading VR on PC's is quite doable. I am just
getting started with the CDK myself. I am running the demos on a 486/66
with 16M of RAM and an ATI Mach32 board. I can get reasonable motion with
the simple demos.
I am planning on upgrading to a faster system for smoother motion, etc.
For a presentation, you might not need smooth motion, I expect people will
want to move into a room and look for a while, then move on. (Not that
smooth motion would hurt.)
I am investigating low cost video boards to provide texture mapping, and
low cost HMDs as well. I will let you know what I come up with.
Bret
(I think it would be very neat to design and present our ideas in vr.)
(Is anyone doing this?)
Hi Peter,
I purchased Autodesk's 3D Studio Release 4 and the Cyberspace Development Kit
about two(2) months ago for this very purpose. Since then I have created a
walkthrough of an office suite using both packages. My plans are to take this
one step further and attach sensing devices so my client can interact within
the application. My current system is a Pentium 90 with a Diamond Stealth Pro
and 16Meg of memory. The performance is good but could be better! Since
applications developed using CDK must be in WindowsNT, this operating system
supports dual processors, so this is my next endeavor.
I also have Super Scape VRT3.52 virtural reality software which is an
integrated development environment package for this very purpose of creating
walkthroughs that doesn't require any programming knowledge.
…Terry 76251,772
Hey Terry,
PMJI…………I recently got some information on Superscape for the
reason that I am not a programmer, but want to offer "VR" type walkthroughs as
a service. What is your opinion of the software? We may want to take this
message session to mail since it insn't Adesk stuff. Let me know.
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