Taking my first steps onto a planet!

[smartroad]

At least today we don't have to get dressed up to enter a virtual world.

I best take my motorcycle leathers off then when playing the game...

[TorTorden]

I don't think it was because it was " too hard" to get to now. I just think everybody just gave up on it.
There just wasn't a market for VR entertainment yet cause it was too expensive and required to much rendering processing power.
Something we still don't have enough of honestly.

[Walter]

I don't think it was because it was " too hard" to get to now. I just think everybody just gave up on it.
There just wasn't a market for VR entertainment yet cause it was too expensive and required to much rendering processing power.
Something we still don't have enough of honestly.

Sorry, should have been plainer, that's what I meant by "too hard". It's clear from dipping into the rest of the book that the conceptual development of many of the mechanisms that we take for granted were well developed by 1990 - and probably just as many have justly fallen by the wayside. But they were mixing RL with computer-generated imagery and using real space to map a virtual world ("room play") on b&w screens of 100 pixels square.

Using devices like that would have been completely impractical outside of research lab even if anyone could have afforded them. It's technological progress that's moved the ideas from "functional" to "usable", even if they're not "finished".

Having seen the Vive video on the Is the Oculus dead thread? thread, I'll settle for what's available before the eyes get downgraded again - just need to raise the cash for the processing power. Any offers on a 30-year-old volume of essays on the HCI?

[TorTorden]

Nah, I'm good.
I would like to get rid of a 20 or so year old book of c++. and windows server 2003 bible..

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Seriously, why do I still own this ?

And thank fuck my daily life no longer involves active directory..

[Roger Wilco Jr]

That was a cool vid. Was that as far away from the SRV as you could get?

[smartroad]

That was a cool vid. Was that as far away from the SRV as you could get?

Given where I was sitting yes. Next time I plan to reset the viewpoint so I can move further away. Would be nice to have less of the SRV in view:)