Re: Dec.'96 Sky & Telescope, VR


From: galitzer@pop.erols.com (Sid and Rose Galitzer)
Subject: Re: Dec.'96 Sky & Telescope, VR
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:41:16 -0400


Tim,
  in Regards to:
2. I'm currently involved with a team of teachers in an NCSA study
>of virtual reality applications in education.  My goal is to expand the
>results of Activity 1.2 from the LFM Teacher's Guide into a 3-D computer
>rendering.  I would most appreciate suggestions from anyone knowledgeable
>of currently available mac software which can take x,y,z coordinates and
>render them into a virtual landscape.
    I recently received a blurb on a piece of software available that is
a virtual reality centered around the concept of a rover on mars navigating
across the martian surface.  Since we were going to preview this for the
7th and 8th grades, I passed it on. But I will find out the name for you. -
Rose