SIGGRAPH 1991: Tomorrow’s Realities: Virtual Reality
Overview:
This specially designed SIGGRAPH ?91 gallery introduces attendees to the new interactive environments facilitated by dynamic interaction with advanced technologies. Here, attendees can enter networked virtual realities, explore hypermedia documents, and review displays that reveal the breadth and depth of interactive technologies.
Virtual Reality
For the first time, SIGGRAPH ?91 presents a juried selection of virtual reality appli- cations demonstrations. These systems apply a broad range ofsensory inputs and outputs, and human-machine interfaces, to create virtual worlds. Although appli- cations are the focus, new input/output devices (such as boom-supported head- mount displays) will also be demon- strated. Some systems enable participants to perform practical tasks such as medical simulation, scientific research, complex industrial design, or manufacturing assembly simulation. Others create alter- native environments for entertainment, recreation, exercise, or fantasy. Some are designed for solo exploration. Others allow several participants to explore and collaborate in the same virtual reality simultaneously.
Hypermedia
These innovative displays merge still and dynamic images, print, and audio to create entertaining, engaging, interac- tive environments that encourage explo- ration. Their imaginative application of computer graphics technologies allows observers to interact with the material and move seamlessly from general infor- mation to specific details.
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Jury Member(s):
- William Bricken
- Peter Broadwell
- Douglas Crockford
- David Fox
- Thomas A. Furness III
- Myron W. Krueger
- Brenda Laurel
- Michael J. Zyda
- Richard J. Beach
- Cathleen Britt
- William (Bill) Buxton
- Hugh Dubberly
- Enrique Godreau III
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