Re: A few notes on text

Wayne Ingalls 206-865-3593 ([email protected])
Wed, 14 Jun 95 17:37:40 PDT

On Tue, 6 Jun 95 16:06:04 EDT [email protected] (Mark Waks) wrote:
>
> Food for thought: howzabout a node that defines a "window" (a plane
> that is sited in 3-D space), plus a URL that accompanies it? The URL
> gets loaded and shipped off to the appropriate application (based on
> MIME types); the output of that application is then displayed via the
> window.

A couple of guys here at Boeing have done just exactly this for an
interface to the computer while in an immersive VR invironment. They
have a "window" that appears to be held in one hand ( and moves in full
6D with the tracked hand ). In this window, any 2D data can be
displayed, in particular, HTML. They have also worked out a method
whereby a finger on the other hand is tracked and this window becomes a
virtual touch sensitive screen. It was not hard to do.

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