And yet another version of..
Companies that manufacture VR systems or components; VR consultants , newsletters, books, BBS and homebrew VR groups.
Phone # w/o country prefix, F means FAX (only digits different from voice # given), trademarks in " ", where available, the name of the the founder/CEO is included
Abbreviations: HMD head mounted display, PS position sensor, CIS Compuserve
UK Companies
Air Muscle Unit 12 Orchard Close, Cranfield, Bedford MK4 3OHX Hennequin, Jim "Teletact" glove with mini-airbag force feeback "Datacq" force input glove user 1 grabs something with Datacq, user 2 feels it with Teletact
Dimension International (0734) 810 077 Fax 816 940 Zephyr One Calleva Park, Aldermaston, Berkshire RG7 4QZ "Superscape" VR SW, for workstations or PC (with 34020 graphics card)
Division (0454) 324 527 F 323 059 Quarry Rd., Bristol BS17 6AX Barron, Ian 80860-based VR. "Vision VR" hi-end system with multiple 80860s. PC-based lo-end system with one 80860 and one Toshiba TC8512 3D-chip per eye.
Real World Graphics (0992) 554 442 F 827 5 Bluecoats Ave., Hertford SG14 1PB 80860-based VR systems. "SuperReality" with multiple 80860s and texturing ASICs on VME cards. Lo-end "Reality PC" has a four-processor PC card with stereo framebuffer. Specialising in flight simulation.
Virtual Presence Ltd 071 253 9699 F 490 8968 25 Corsham St., London N16DR Consultancy
Virtual S The Limes, 123 Mortlake High Street, SW14 8SN London, (081) 392 9000 F 2424 Capon, Ian Consultancy
W.Industries (0533) 542 127 F 548 222 3 Oswin Rd., Brailsford Industrial Park, Leicester LE3 1HR Waldern, Jonathan "Visette" HMD "Virtuality" arcade VR systems
US Companies
3D Imagetek (818) 507 1269 F 8537 4525-B San Fernando Rd., Glendale, CA 91204 HMDs
Ascension Technologies (802) 6557 879 P.O.Box 527, Burlington, VE 05402 "Bird", "Flock of birds" family of magnetic PS
Autodesk, Inc. 2320 Marinship Way, Sausalito, CA 94965 (VR SW to be introduced 3Q92)
CiS (603) 894-5999 F (508) 692-2600 285 Littleton Road, Suite 3, Westford, MA 01886 "Geometry Ball Jr." (6D Joystick)
Crystal River Engineering (209) 962 6382 12350 Wards Ferry Rd., Groveland, CA 95321 Foster, Scott "Convolvotron" 3D-audio PC cards
Exos (617) 229 2075 8 Blanchard Rd, Burlington, MA 01803 Marcus, Elisabeth "Dexterous Hand Master" instrumented glove.
Fake Space Labs (415) 688 1940 F 1949 935 Hamilton Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025 "BOOM" (Binocular Omni Orientation Monitor)
stereo monitor mounted on articulated arm.
"Molly" teleoperated camera platform
Focal Point Audio 1402 Pine Ave. Suite 127, Niagara Falls, NY 14301 low-cost 3D-audio cards for Mac
Gyration (408) 255 3016 12930 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga CA 95070 "GyroEngine" mechanical gyroscope orientation sensor. "Gyropoint" 3D-pointer.
ISCAN (617) 868 5353 F 9231 125 Cambridgepark Dr., PO Box 2076, Cambridge, MA 02238 Eye trackers
Leep Systems (617) 647 1395 F 899 9602 241 Crescent St., Waltham, MA 02154 Howlett, Eric "Cyberface" HMDs, optics for HMDs.
Logitech (415) 795 8500 F 901 6505 Kaiser Dr., Fremont, CA 94555 Ultrasound PS, 3D-mouse
Myron Krueger Artificial Reality (203) 871-1375 55 Edith, Vernon, CA 06066 Custom-designed virtual world environments
Polhemus (802) 655 3159 F 1439 P.O.Box 560 Colchester, VE 05446 "Isotrak","Fastrak" magnetic PS
Polhemus Research Cambridge, VE (802) 644 5569 F2943 Polhemus, William Hi-end fiberoptic HMD
Pop-Optix Labs see Leep Systems
Reflection Technology (617) 890 5905 F 18 230 Second Ave., Waltham, MA 02154 "Private Eye" LED-based monochrome lo-res HMD. "Megapixel" hi-res version to be introduced
Sense8 (415) 331 6318 F 9148 1001 Bridgeway, PO Box 477, Sausalito, CA 94965 "WorldToolKit" low cost PC-based VR C-library. Uses Intel DVI cards for fast texture mapping. SW-only Versions for workstations (SGI,Sun).
Simgraphics Engineering (213) 255 0900 1137 Huntingdon Dr., South Pasadena, CA 91030 Hi-end VR on SGI workstations, consulting. "VR-Workbench" , "BodyBuilder" SW. "Flying Mouse" 6D mouse Motion platforms for theme parks
Stereographics (415) 459 4500 271-H East Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901 "CrystalEyes" LCD shutter stereo viewing glasses viewing SW for PC, Mac, workstations
Spaceball Technologies (408) 745-0330 2063 Landings, Sunnyvale, CA 94043 "Spaceball" 6D joystick
Spectrum Dynamics (713) 752 0761 CIS 70761,1647 2016 Main St.Suite 1207 Houston, Texas 77002-8843 VR component distributor
Straylight Corp. (908) 580 0086 F 92 150 Mount Bethel Rd., Warren, NJ 07059 "PhotoVR" DVI-based desktop VR
Subjective Technologies (619) 942-0928 1106 Second St. Suite 103, Encinitas, CA 92024 Tools for controlling virtual environments
Telepresence Research (415) 325 8951 635 High St., Palo Alto, CA 94301 Fisher, Scott; Laurel, Brenda Consulting
Viewpoint Animation Engineering Orem, Utah (801) 225 1905 F 2999 Polygonal objects libraries
Virtex Technologies (415) 497 1204 Stanford, CA 94309 Kramer, Jim "CyberWear" instrumented clothing (gloves, suits).
VPL Research (415) 361 1710 F 1845 656 Bair Island Rd., Suite 304, Redwood City, CA 94063 Lanier, Jaron "RB2" hi-end VR on Silicon Graphics workstations. "Eyephone" series of HMDs, "Dataglove","Datasuit" instrumented clothing "MicroCosm" midrange-VR for Mac with rendering board licensed from Division
Virtual Research (408 )739 7114 1313 Socorro Ave. Sunnyvale CA 94089 "Flight Helmet" HMD
Virtual Technologies (415) 599 2331 see Virtex
VREAM Inc. 2568 North Clark St., Chicago IL 60614 (312) 477 0425 "VREAM" PC-based VR SW
WorlDesign (206) 782 8630 128 NW 56th St. Seattle, WA 98107 Jacobson, Robert Consultancy
Xtensory Inc. (408) 439-0600 140 Sunridge Drive, Scolls Valley, CA 95066 Tactile feedback systems
Canadian Companies
Advanced Gravis Computer Technology (604) 434 7274 7400 MacPherson Ave., 111, Burnaby, B.C. V5J 5B6 "Mousestick" input device
CAE Electronics (514) 341 6780 C.P.1800 Saint-Laurent, Quebec, H4L 4X4 HMDs
Shooting Star Technology (604) 298 8574 1921 Holdom Ave., Burnaby, BC, V5B 3W4 Mechanical position sensor (articulated arm attachable to HMD)
The Vivid Group 317 Adelaide St.West, Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario M5V1P9 (416) 340 9290 "Mandala" VR SW for Amiga
Publishers, Newsletters
Cyberedge (415) 383 2458 F 389 0251 928 Greenhill Rd., Mill Valley, CA 94941 Delaney, Ben "Cyberedge" newsletter
Meckler Publishing (203) 226 6967 F 454 5840 11 Ferry Lane West, Westport, CT 06880 Helsel, Sandra "VR Report" newsletter, VR books.
Media Magic (415) 662-2426 P.O. Box 507 Nicasio, CA 94946 Superb catalog with books and videos on VR, Chaos, Fractals, etc.
VR News P.O Box 2515 London N4 4JW (081) 292 1498 Bevan, Mike Newsletter
"Presence" VR journal MIT Press (617) 253 5643 55 Hayward St., Cambridge, MA 02142
Magazines with VR coverage: AI Magazine (special VR issue) Mondo 2000 Whole Earth Review
Books
"Virtual Reality" Summit Books Rheingold, Howard
"Artificial Reality II" Addison-Wesley Krueger, Myron
.. and for a taste of the future, read Gibson and Dick !
Homebrew VR groups
VRUG (VR Users' Group) London contact Kim Bauckham at (081) 297 8366
BBS, newsgroups
CIX (071) 390 9787 biggest UK BBS, VR conference (little activity so far)
Compuserve Computer arts forum, library 13 Eagan, John (moderator)
Usenet sci.virtual-worlds newsgroup Jacobson, Robert (moderator) can be received over CIS mail
(send email request to Mark DeLoura at madsax@u.washington.edu)
condensed files compiled by John Eagan available in CIS Comart lib 13
Well (Whole Earth Lectronic Link) voice (415) 332 4335 modem (415) 332 8410 27 Gate Five Rd., Sausalito, CA 94965 can be accessed over CPN (CIS packet network) Rheingold, Howard (moderator) BBS run by the "Whole Earth" crowd VR coverage since 1989
Companies/products we couldn't locate so far..
"Geoball" 6D-pointer/mouse
Virtus "Virtus Walkthrough" SW for Mac