From: phil osborn (philosborn@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 17 2000 - 22:20:20 MDT
>From: "Gina Miller" <nanogirl@halcyon.com>
>Subject: Re: Extropia NETwork TV
>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:47:14 -0700
>
>It's made by Play (trinity), see: http://cf.play.com/play/
>
>Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
>
>
>From: "phil osborn" <philosborn@hotmail.com
> > My God! You mean that "trinity" is actually finally a real product? I
>kept
> > seeing it at shows for years, but the release date was always 3 months
>away,
> > no matter when you asked. So it's actually out there now?
> >
>
Wow! I just knew that as soon as I stopped systematically covering the
field for the magazines, then they would finally actually release the thing.
Really nice. I saw it at SIGGRAPH or E3 or one of the other shows a
couple years back, and it just blew me away. However, a couple of the
official Trinity dealers then told me that they had been waiting forever,
living on promises from Play, and were really fed up.
I talked with one of the two major developers of Trinity at the last show
where I saw it and asked them if there was anything in the hardware that
would prevent them from using trigger points or areas in the 3D virtual sets
for real-time interactions with the Virtual environment. He told me that
nothing stopped it except that the software didn't yet support it - but it
was a good idea.
So, with Trinity and a little programming work you could have - for a mere
$10,000+ - a high-def real-time VR system that puts you directly into a 3D
VR, with interactions, shadows, reflections, the whole Monte.
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