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Article #225Virtual Reality on the CuBE
From: james dehnert
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 00:31
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 00:31
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I was reading a post in another newsgroup about Virtual Reality where this person was saying "Do NOT buy a NeXT for VR" and it occured to ma that the NeXT could become an ideal platform for VR. We already have the 3D kit, and experimenting with the Demo and Beta coppies that I have managed to get a hold of leads me to believe trhat it would be a simple matter to generate images from 2 viewpoints to make a stereo pair. My origonal thought was to use a mair of ND boards, one for each eye, but then I thought someone could make a card for the cube that har 2 16 bit color outputs. If the features are kept down then they could be optimized for speed and still be reasonably priced. You also get the capabilities for 2 color monitors with just 1 card. I guess I'll add this to my lists of neat things you could do with the cube should NeXT keep it alive. Sometimes I really wish I was a hardware guy. Zeke -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ =+ += Eschew Obfuscation Next Mail Welcome =+ += += =+ James "Zeke" Dehnert zeke@znext.cts.com += =+ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!olivea!charnel!rat!ucselx!crash!znext!zeke From: zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Virtual Reality on the CuBE Message-ID: <1992Nov5.003158.7442@znext.cts.com> Date: 5 Nov 92 00:31:58 GMT Followup-To: zeke@znext.cts.com Organization: pnet Lines: 25