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26 Sep 2016

A Challenge to Virtual Reality by A. Michael Noll

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A Challenge to Virtual Reality A. Michael Noll September 26, 2016 © 2016 AMN Is today’s virtual reality little more than real fantasy? Back in the 1960s, Maurice Constant of the National Film board of Canada visited Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. I was in the audience listening to him challenge us to make a system that would allow a designer to actually mold with their hands a virtual clay that existed only in the computer – seeing and feeling simultaneously in 3D. I was challenged by this vision, and subsequently designed and built an interactive 3D […]
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26 Nov 2015

‘3D Yet Again’ by A. Michael Noll

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‘3D Yet Again’ A. Michael Noll November 26, 2015 © 2015 AMN Stereoscopic 3D has always created a strong fascination with its feelings of depth and realism. Today it has morphed into the hype of something called “holographic enhanced virtual reality.” As a child, I had both a Tru-View stereoscope that used 35mm filmstrips and also a View-Master™ stereoscope that used small images on disks. They both presented separate pictures for the left and right eyes that created the feeling of stereoscopic depth. While employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey during the1960s, I programmed the computer there to […]
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