From JoeDysart@aol.com Wed Apr 10 13:14:22 1996 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:00:27 -0400 From: JoeDysart@aol.com To: JoeDysart@aol.com Subject: VR Monthly Heads-Up: April 14, 1996 <<<<<<>>>>>> April 14, 1996 ~ Vol. 1 No. 3 3DO CUSTOMIZES BLADEFORCE FOR VR BladeForce, a flying action-shooter title from Studio 3DO, has been customized to operate with X-O-Tron VR. A life-sized gyroscope that immerses gamers into the bullet-dodging, tail-spinning, and dive-bombing action of 3DO games, the VR gyro has already been snapped up by Paramount's Wonderland in Ontario, Canada, and at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Besides targeting amusement parks and shopping malls, the manufacturer of the X-O-Tron -- Altare Advanced Technologies -- also has plans to sell the X-O-Tron to health clubs as a form of exercise and entertainment. Pricing for the VR technology starts at $22,000. Contact: Diane Hunt, The 3DO Company Voice: (415) 261-3214 Email: diane.hunt@3do.com ^Ñ96: A YEAR OF RAPID GROWTH FOR VR The coming year will witness great strides in the growth of virtual reality, according to 4th Wave, an industry consultancy. The great expenditures once needed to generate heart-renderingly compelling 3D graphics will continue to shrink, and industry and consumers alike will begin to enjoy VR at affordable rates. In July ^Ñ95's issue of "VR Monthly," 4th Wave offers it's projections on the growth of VR in R&D, applications, marketing, public play, entertainment equipment and other key markets through 1999. The issue is available for $30 -- or free with a one year, $99 subscription to "VR Monthly." Send email to the editor and publisher to order. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MORE ABOUT VR MONTHLY HEADS-UP: Currently, VR Monthly Heads-Up is an online sampler spotlighting the kind of coverage subscribers find every month in "Virtual Reality Monthly: The World Market's Window on VR," a hard copy, 16-page newsletter. ~To obtain a sample email version of a complete issue of Virtual Reality Monthly (May 1995 only), send an email message to auto@rome.servint.com, with the following words in the body of the message: get freevrm ~The free email sample currently includes a special discount "2-for-$99" order form. ~To obtain information on how to advertise with Virtual Reality Monthly Heads-Up, contact Joe Dysart, the editor and publisher at: dysart@delphi.com. ~ (c) Copyright 1996 Virtual Reality Monthly and The Dysart Group. All rights reserved. (To unsubscribe from this list, send any email message to JoeDysart@aol.com with the following word in the subject heading of the message: unsubscribe) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (3)