Enabling Technologies

 

General resources

  • Directory of Sources for Input Technologies
  • Review of Virtual Environment Interface Technology (1996)
  • 3-D Displays: A Review of Current Technologies (1997)
  • 3D User Interface Resources
  • Stereoscopic 3D Virtual Reality Market Surveys
  • VR News Tech Reviews
  • 3D Audio Immersion - News, reviews, drivers & links for PC audio
  • AES Audio Related Links
  • Virtual Audio Bibliography (1996)
  • 3-D Audio for HCI
  • Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (1994)
  • Online Haptics Library

Visual interfaces

    Stereoscopic devices

    • Links to 3D websites
    • Stereoscopic Imaging Technology by Michael Starks
    • 3D Expo.com - Depthcharge webviewer and VR Surfer
    • 3DTV Corporation
    • Neotek - 3D for MS-Windows
    • Philips 3D LCD
    • StereoGraphics Co. - ChrystalEyes, ZScreen
    • VRex - Stereoscopic projectors, camera's, web-plugins, etc.
    • CYVIZ - Stereo3D converter

    Head-mounted displays

    • Overview of HMDs (1999)
    • Fakespace Labs - BOOM and PUSH displays
    • i-O Display Systems - i-glasses
    • Kaiser Electro-Optics, Inc. - ProView displays
    • Microvision - Retinal Scanning Displays
    • n-Vision, inc. - Datavisor displays
    • TekGear - Monocular HMDs
    • Virtual Research Systems - V6 and V8 displays

    Immersive projection displays/ cinema

    • VR Systems UK - Cybersphere (Fully immersive spherical projection system)
    • Elumens - VisionDome
    • Evans & Sutherland - Displays for simulation & training
    • Fakespace Systems - CAVE, ImmersaDesk, etc.
    • Tom Coffin's CAVE Info Page
    • Flogiston - Flostation
    • Goto Optical Manufacturing Co. - Virtuarium (dome projection system)
    • IMAX Technology
    • Immersion Studios - Interactive cinema, immersive game theaters
    • Optical Physics - Panoramic displays
    • The Widescreen Centre
    • Cinematography.com
    • Cinematography World - News and resources

    TV/video

    • Charting the digital broadcasting future (1998)
    • Sam's Digital TV Report
    • NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, Japan
    • ITC - Independent Television Commission, UK
    • Immersive Media - Roundabout Immersive Video
    • Lew Irwin's Sudio Briefing

Auditory interfaces

  • AudioLink Inc. - Sound production for interactive media
  • Brown Innovations - Localizer Sound Dome
  • Holophonics - site includes spatial audio samples
  • Lake Technology Ltd.
  • Odeon Room Acoustics - site includes spatial audio samples
  • Sennheiser - Surrounder
  • Sonics - Personal Sound Environment for IMAX

Haptic Interfaces

  • Displaced Temperature Sensing System
  • Immersion - TouchSense
  • Logitech iFeel Mouse
  • Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interfaces
  • MPB Technologies Freedom 6S
  • Pantograph Haptic Device
  • Pneumatic Haptic Interface System
  • Sarcos - Telerobotics (exoskeletal)
  • SensAble Technologies - Phantom
  • Trackball with Contextual Motor Feedback
  • Force Dimension - 3 DOF and 6 DOF devices

Olfactory interfaces

  • The Olfactory Display of Abstract Information - Paper by Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye (2002)
  • Virtual Olfactory Interfaces - Bookchapter by Davide, Holmberg & Lundstrom (2001)
  • Cyrano Sciences - Cyranose 320 electronic nose
  • International Flavors and Fragrances - Living Flower technology

Motion tracking

  • Ascension Technology Co. - Flock of Birds, MotionStar, etc.
  • InterSense, Inc. - InterTrax, InterSense IS-series
  • Polhemus - Fastrak
  • Northern Digital Inc. - Optotrak, Aurora, Polaris
  • 3rdTech - HiBall Wide Area Tracker

VR solution providers

  • 5th Dimension Technologies - VR hardware and software
  • Evans & Sutherland - Professional and military simulators
  • Inition - VE development & stereo visualisations
  • iReality.com, Inc.
  • Mechdyne Corporation
  • The VR Source
  • Trimension - Reality Rooms, V-domes, etc.
  • Virtual Presence
  • Virtual Realities
  • VRCO - Software and consulting
  • Xtensory Inc

Historical Information

  • National Museum Of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK
  • Lumiere Brothers
  • The American Widescreen Museum
  • The Swedish Widescreen Centre
  • Cinerama Adventure
  • Media History Project
  • Recording Technology history
  • The history of HDTV