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
 
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