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Foil 45 T1.2: Hardware 1: Off-the-shelf peripherals - II

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project First Review Review Meeting at Rome Laboratory -- 31 January 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Polarized shutter glasses, available at low cost from various vendors, offer a natural front-end candidate for the video output.
Alternative low end HMD mode will be also supported to address sensory immersive support for VRML. Here the promising current candidate is from Virtual I/O - a truly lightweight, reasonable resolution and display quality headmount, which also offers an easy switch between fully immersive and augmented reality modes.
3D sound (Crystal River -- Convolvotron) supported by VRML 2.0 will be investigated
Cricket-like input devices seem to be most practical for CIV applications.
  • These low cost peripherals typically offer 6 degrees of freedom location capability,
  • tactile feedback and one or a few special purpose control buttons.
  • The device is hand-held, light and easy to operate in various lab settings.
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