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	    TRIVR - Triangle Virtual Reality Special Interest Group
                          Meeting Announcement

Date:	  Wednesday, June 29th, 1994
Time: 	  6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Bell-Northern Research, RTP, RTP Room.

The purpose of TRIVR is to generate interest in VR, and promote
information sharing amongst members of the Triangle VR community.

Meeting Agenda:

6:00pm -- Refreshments
6:30pm -- Presentation by David Schiff, Marketing Manager of Division, Inc.
7:15pm -- Introductions, Announcements, and  "Latest & Greatest" discussion
8ish pm -- Adjourn

Directions to BNR RTP:

Take I-40 towards Research Triangle Park and get off at Davis Drive.
Turn left (south), and follow Davis through the intersection with
Highway 54.  Continue for another half mile, and turn left into the BNR
entrance on Davis.  This is the employee lot.  Park here and enter the
door on this side of the building.  The RTP Room is located to your
left, in the atrium area.

Abstract:  

Division, Inc. is a leading supplier of professional virtual reality systems. 
Founded in 1989 in Bristol, U.K., Division has recently opened a product 
development, sales and marketing office in Chapel Hill. Division will present
information about its key virtual reality products.  There will also be a 
demonstration of Division's products following the talk.
These include:
	- dVS, a virtual world runtime environment based on a distributed model
          in which different elements of the virtual environment are controlled
          by autonomous parallel servers.
	- dVISE, an interactive tool for development of complex virtual worlds. 
          Worlds are composed of Virtual Objects, each with user-defined 
          attributes such as color, texture, behaviour, audio characteristics,
          etc. Interaction is through both 2D windows and 3D menus in the 
          immersive environment.
	- ProVISION 100 VPX, a fully integrated virtual reality system combining
          stereo graphics, 3D sound, and low latency interactivity in a single 
          chassis. The image generation is based on Pixel Planes technology 
          licensed from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 
          Department of Computer Science, and can generate up to 500K textured 
          polygons/second. It also has the capacity for almost 1Gpixel 
          throughput per eye.

About the speaker:

Doug Schiff
Marketing Manager
Division, Inc.

Doug was a math and science teacher for eight years before returning to graduate
school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied
computer science specializing in computer graphics and computational geometry. 
After leaving UNC, Doug spent almost seven years at Sun Microsystems where he 
was the Market Segment Manager for Graphics. Doug joined Division, Inc. in 
January to manage U.S. marketing from Division's new Chapel Hill facility.
 
-- 
Patrick O'Shaughnessey                | internet: shags@x400gate.bnr.ca 
BNR INC., 35 Davis Drive              | voice:    (919) 991-4172
P.O. Box 13478                        | "Ask me about TRIVR!  The Triangle
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3478 | Virtual Reality Special Interest Group."
"Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away."