Project Number
- 21
Title
- PROvision
Description
- Virtual environments for designing, exploring, and touching synthetic objects.
Contact
- Charles Grimsdale
Affiliation
- DIVISION Limited
Address
- Quarry Road, Chipping Sodbury
- Bristol, Avon BS17 6AX United Kingdom
- +44.0454.324527
- +44.0454.323059 fax
- Bristol, Avon BS17 6AX United Kingdom
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- Three different systems are presented to illustrate an integrated yet modular approach to virtual realities.
- "Virtual Environment Interaction" allows users to create their own virtual world through a metaphor of connected rooms. In "Protein Folding", users drive a simulation towards an optimal goal of creating a tertiary 3D structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence. "Advanced Mechanical Simulation" simulates the interaction of a deformable virtual object in a virtual room.
- Using both visual and tactile feedback, users gain more intuitive access to their virtual environments.
Sight
- DIVISION Ltd PROvision virtual reality computer
Sound
Touch
- VPL Research DataGlove and Eyephone, Polhemus Isotrack 3Space digitizer, AirMuscl Ltd TELETACT feedback glove
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 201 - virtual environment
Secondary
- 301 - visualization
Remarks
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