Subject: Virtual Reality programs

From: [email-masked] (Superuser)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 17:38:56 -0800

I was in the local software store today (well, one of them) and ran 
across a couple of virtual reality programs.  While I forget the names,
one of them seemed particularly appealing in that it allowed you to create
buildings, etc. etc.  It was all graphically based.  

The other program simply allowed you to create landscapes.

Neither of them said anything about an interactive programming language,
and I suspect they don't have anything like that (I'm not familiar with
these 'other' VR programs; never seen them in action).

I recall there being some discussion recently about MIME and graphics
assosicated with LambdaMOO.  Well, while it might not be realistic to
have an across-the-board implementation of it, it would be incredible
to combine the capabilities of, say, one of the VR/graphical programs
and that of the LambdaMOO system.  Think of the expansion it would
create (and the time needed to actually implement it!).  Has anyone
else pondered this possibility.  I would think the likely platform
to port such a beast to would be the IBM-compat world (and perhaps
Xwindows (which I don't have yet))... particularly MS-windows.

I'd love to hear some ideas... Pavel?

Forrest

PS:  I'm getting a little CLOSER to getting MOO to work on the SCO
UNIX(3.2.4) machine... closer... but not yet ;)

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 06:45:44 -0800

Check out the interactive lanscape building tool shipped with SimLife
[or maybe A-Train or SimCity] by Maxis.  And I've seen a demo of
something they have coming, making it really easy and sweet to make
terrain.