From: pgm@world.std.com (Paul G Matthews)
Subject: EVENT: Boston Computer Society VR Group Meeting: HW/SW Interfaces
Originator: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 01:49:01 GMT



Boston Computer Society Virtual Reality Group OCTOBER MEETING:

        Date: October 14, 1992
        Loc:  MIT Building 66 Rm. 144
        Time: 7 p.m.

        Topic: "Bootup = Big Bang: VR Interfaces and the Desktop Metaphor"
                Lots of attention is being paid these days to interface
                design and hardware.  Tonight we discuss how designers
                and users are collaborating on the way to a true
                "Virtual Office," along with a presentation by special
                guest Don Eastlake of Transfinite Systems Company of
                Cambridge MA.

                Don is the inventor of the Gold Brick, an interface
                device that allows you to get three-dimensional
                information into a Macintosh, using any
                Nintendo-compatible input device, including the Power
                Glove, UFORCE, Powerpads and joysticks.  He plans to
                bring a demo.  Transfinite calls the Gold Brick "The
                Cyberspace Interface" and markets it as "Virtual Reality
                At A Price You Can Afford."

  Directions to meeting:

 Go across Longfellow Bridge from Storrow Drive.  Stay on
 Broadway, getting into left-turn lane at third traffic light.  Turn
 left onto "street with no name posted."  Go to light at intersection of
 Main, "NoName Street" and Vassar Streets.  Bear left between parking
 garage and building.  Ralph Landau Building (MIT Bldg 66) is just past
 the garage.  Go through glass doors, turn left and and follow signs to
 meeting place in Rm 144.

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BCS VR NOVEMBER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

 Date: November 11, 1992
 Loc: MIT Building 66 Rm. 144
 Time: 7 p.m.
 Topic: "Video Night"

 Get a look at what's happening in VR by joining us for a night of
 member and vendor VR videos.

 VENDORS: Loan us your videos!  Contact Paul Matthews pgm@world.std.com
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      ATTENTION RESEARCHERS, VENDORS & OTHERS
We have a growing membership of VR enthusiasts who would like to hear
from you.   Things you can do:

        * Put us on your mailing list.
        * Make a presentation at one of our meetings.

Information received is put into our monthly newsletter.  Also, we are
always looking for good presentations for our monthly meetings. If you
would like the opportunity to make contact with VR enthusiasts, contact
Paul Matthews.  (Contact info in tagline.)
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                       GROUP PHILOSOPHY
The purpose of the Boston Computer Society Virtual Reality Group is to
provide an ongoing forum for bringing scientists and developers together
with VR enthusiasts/potential users who do not normally attend
VR-industry gatherings.  By exploring both the technology and its
cultural implications, exposing each to the other's thoughts and ideas,
we can help shape the future of this medium.
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