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VR Possibilities Kevin Keast Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:29:45 -0800

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Hello All,

I brought this topic up a while ago but want to throw it out to the list again.

I am not using VR for my personnal system at the moment however I am working with Dragon's
Naturally speaking and HAL for a disabled client.  Dragons Naturally speaking is a really
good VR program!  When trained, it really does not miss much at all.  I have not used
the MS VR much.  When working with this it seems just 'okay' and I know you can't expect
a superb system for free.  What is the future for ECS and VR?  I don't know a whole
lot about how ECS works with VR (the programming side) but reading the manual gives
the impression that you should be able to configure other VR programs to work with it.
(Are we talking about for a user or a programmer?)  Unless the docs have changed since
I last read them there is no guidance for configuring VR with another VR program.  It
is like ECS is currently hard-wired to MS SDK.  Is anyone using VR other than MS VR?
 If ECS could easily work with other VR programs this would put it in another HA class
by itself (Some serious potential for the new HA user I would think).  Direct compatibility
with some leading VR programs would be valuable.  How about HomeVoice and ECS?  It seems
that HomeVoice is in the lead in the area of VR right now for HA.  HAL is not doing
very well.

For VR, IMHO I would rank the programs as such:

1.  Dragon's Naturally Speaking
2.  HomeVoice
3.  MS SDK
4.  HAL2000

Mark:  This is meant to be completely constructive.  
   
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Kevin, d8)
libertyc@prodigy.net
keastk@ele.uri.edu



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