Still not useful for realtime rendering, but a good choice for prerendering, movies and so on. I think most of those "Dino movies" use a manual 3d scanner tool, that's like a pen you have to move on the surface of the (real world) model,kind of a 3D pointing device.
One could build something like this with the data glove somebody released the blitz decls for some time ago.
One could build something like this with the data glove somebody released the blitz decls for some time ago.