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Visitors witness Volcanic Edinburgh

Tuesday 4 Nov 1997

Dr. Stuart Monro, Scientific Director, and Nina Ludgate (Event Communications) visited KMi’s MultiMedia Enabling Technologies group to see protoype material for the Volcanic Edinburgh part of the exhibition currently under construction for the Dynamic Earth project in Edinburgh.

A web page for the project, with sample QTVR movies, can be viewed at http://met.open.ac.uk/met_vr/v r_earth.html

Later, they went on to Earth Sciences to see other geological materials in use in OU courses.

The photo shows, left to right, Dr. Peter Whalley (MET group), Dr. Dave Williams (Earth Sciences), Nina and Dr. Monro looking at a custom interface for an Apple Pippin low-cost computer running a QTVR/Director virtual tour of Walton Church.