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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 08:38:04 -0800
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Gwen Bell <bell@TCM.ORG>
Subject: Re: 3-D display -- NOT!
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>Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Poster: Bob Bickford <rab@WELL.COM>
>Subject: Re: 3-D display -- NOT!
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>Ben Tanen wrote:
>>Hi folks. I am interested in the earliest mention anyone can find of a three-dimensional display: anything involving an image-producing device for each eye with some way of making them combine using parallax, polarized light, etc. would do.
Bob Bickford wrote:
for the VR (flight simulator) projects they were
>working on way back when (anybody have dates?). One film I saw showed a fellow wearing a helmet that was obviously very very heavy, as it was mounted on a frame that was supported from the ceiling!
This goes back to Ivan Sutherland's head mounted display that he built at Harvard in 1964 that was attached to the PDP-1. The helmut and the film are both on display at The Computer Museum in Boston.
Ivan went on to form Evans and Sutherland where the early commercial flight simulation was done.
Gwen Bell, 450 Old Oak Court Los Altos, CA 94022 Phone/fax 415 949 2735 The Historical Collections, The Computer Museum History Center, Moffet Field warehouse: 415 964 1231 http://tcm.org; email Bell@tcm.org.
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Gwen Bell <bell@TCM.ORG>
Subject: Re: 3-D display -- NOT!
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
>Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Poster: Bob Bickford <rab@WELL.COM>
>Subject: Re: 3-D display -- NOT!
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>Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
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>Ben Tanen wrote:
>>Hi folks. I am interested in the earliest mention anyone can find of a three-dimensional display: anything involving an image-producing device for each eye with some way of making them combine using parallax, polarized light, etc. would do.
Bob Bickford wrote:
for the VR (flight simulator) projects they were
>working on way back when (anybody have dates?). One film I saw showed a fellow wearing a helmet that was obviously very very heavy, as it was mounted on a frame that was supported from the ceiling!
This goes back to Ivan Sutherland's head mounted display that he built at Harvard in 1964 that was attached to the PDP-1. The helmut and the film are both on display at The Computer Museum in Boston.
Ivan went on to form Evans and Sutherland where the early commercial flight simulation was done.
Gwen Bell, 450 Old Oak Court Los Altos, CA 94022 Phone/fax 415 949 2735 The Historical Collections, The Computer Museum History Center, Moffet Field warehouse: 415 964 1231 http://tcm.org; email Bell@tcm.org.
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