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 
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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VRUG (VR Users' Group) London
contact Kim Bauckham at (081) 297 8366




BBS, newsgroups
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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

