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Article #963Re: Small clips of robots on PBS's "Space Age"
From: Kurt Schwehr
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:07
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:07
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In article <Bw1HvD.BB2@news.iastate.edu> mds@iastate.edu (Mark D. Smucker) writes: > > [del] > >Next they showed an underwater ROV ( I didn't catch what university) . >The camera on the ROV was controlled by head movements of the operator >who saw the camera's view with builtin goggles on the helmet. > > >Mark D. Smucker ---- mds@iastate.edu > I wish I coulda seen the show. Here's a little about the ROV: The ROV was put together at NASA's Ames Reseach Center. (I didn't actually see the show, but I only know of one ROV that has head tracking.) The system is run with an Amiga 2000 and a Polhemus head tracker. The group has two sets of goggles (HMD's): one build from two sony camcorder view view finders and one that uses fiber bundles to project a color image. It's a neat system which is being sent to Antarctica in the next few weeks to study a lake. Kurt -- Kurt D. Schwehr DaPhone: 415-948-0257 Email: truk@leland.stanford.edu Undergrad - Junior Smail: P.O. Box 11067, Stanford, CA. 94309 CS + Geology
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Newsgroups: comp.robotics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!truk From: truk@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kurt Schwehr) Subject: Re: Small clips of robots on PBS's "Space Age" Message-ID: <1992Oct13.170726.9388@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA References: <Bw1HvD.BB2@news.iastate.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 17:07:26 GMT Lines: 26