Re: Frequency and Motion

Jon Green ([email protected])
Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:00:26 +0100 (BST)


In a possible past, Eric Kimminau said:
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, Jon Green wrote:
> > Now back to the subject...
> >
> > In a possible past, Eric Kimminau said:
> >
> > > [Snip] I have already
> > > experienced, to coin a phrase "Virtual Reality Confusion" or "VRC(see)".
> > >
> > > I define this as a state of being lost in VR, up is left, down is forward
> > > and Im stuck in a corner. [...]
> > >
> > > Anyone else have this same problem? ANyone else have a convenient way of
> > > doing this in a standard way?
> > >
> > Have your browser implement gravity-like behaviour.
> >
> > Make the (novice-level) full-freedom browsing paradigm a glass helicopter,
> > which orients with respect to COG.
> >
> > The cockpit contains visual cues for orientation. I'd suggest HUD-like
> > "ladders" with pitch, roll and yaw axes in different colours. Intersections
> > would contain arrows pointing to dead-ahead, whilst dead-ahead has no
> > arrowing and dead-aft has a starburst arrow. The viewer's viewpoint can
> > move freely within the cockpit, using pitch, roll and yaw. The chopper is
> > contstrained in normal movement to translation only, unless the user
> > deliberately reorients it. More advanced users can release that constraint,
> > at the risk of (personal) disorientation, but with the option of
> > renormalising with respect to COG.
>
> Another nod towards the need for some type of "HUD" to determine
> orientation. We are adding complexity and bandwidth with this idea. I
> think it may have to be said up from on your VRW entry point whether or
> not the world is a single horizon, fixed path progression or it is a
> "fly-through" world and require specific browser capabilities in order to
> navigate it.
>
> Eric Kimminau [email protected] Ford Motor Co.
> (313)845-5361 "I am not an official Ford spokesperson"
>

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