You Mac wireheads need to know about this--and I quote-- QuickTime VR (Virtual Reality) is based on QuickTime 2.0, but includes additional capabilities. Rather than just offer video sequences, QuickTime VR incorporates spatial information about each locale and what surrounds it. As a result, the user can pan through two 360 degree axes (vertical and horizontal) and can move around the virtual environment.... QuickTime VR enables the user to handle objects by grabbing them with the mouse and rotating them in three dimensions. Apple's QuickTime specialists believe this feature will be useful in museum catalog CDs. Such products will allow museum virtual visitors not only to walk from room to room viewing the exhibits, but also to pick up sculptures and other artifacts for closer examination from any angle. (from a rave review of the CD-ROM "Star Trek: the Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual," TidBITS #230. http://www.dartmouth.edu/Pages/TidBITS/TidBits.html, or send "subscribe TIDBITS <your full name>" to [log in to unmask]) Oh, by the way,a quote (from memory) that pertains to the ongoing diss cussion about manditory supervision in the land of the formerly free: The laws are like cobwebs, that catch little flies and let the big ones escape John Milton _______________________________________________________________ Thought, since its Xmas, that I'd grab a little extra bandwidth and send a greeting from the country of the North Pole. . * (__) . (oo) . . . . . \/ . . . . Jim Swanson . Digital Banff . Banff, Alberta CANADA . /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ [log in to unmask] /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\