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- From: entity@nsq.uucp (cybernetworx)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: TECH: "Virtuality" --- Amiga 3000... Some observations and Questions.
- Keywords: amiga virtuatlity game observations questions
- Message-ID: <301@nsq.uucp>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:18:27 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.221712.23062@Veritas.COM>
- Organization: NSQ
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- In article <1992Aug25.221712.23062@Veritas.COM>, geac@uunet.UU.NET writes:
- >
- > Only a small percentage of the readership of UsNet will be going
- > to the "CNE" (Canadian National Exhibition) in Toronto, but I would
-
- Yeah, the only reason I went this year was to check out the game.. :-)
-
- > How many of these have been seen? This can't be local to
- > Toronto...
-
- I've seen this game on TV shows on virtual reality since last year some time.
- I know that Funland (downtown Toronto) is going to be picking up a few virtual
- reality games for next year.
-
- > response. It's not too bad, but it would break the spell for me. Is
- > there a way to (possibly) avoid some of this? How much is normal for
- > more sky-high priced systems?
- >
- > I was told that the system was about $80,000. Now the 3000 is
- > about $5000-$10,000 depending on what's required. Is this type of
- > hardware normally that expensive (visor, joypad, etc...) ?
-
- Well, I don't know about the glove on 'Dactyl Nightmare, but the 'dataglove'
- which is predominantly used in high end virtual reality systems goes for
- around $11,000 a glove! The visor is usually around $3-4000 I think for the
- lower end color displays. The game you saw at the ex can be bought as a kit
- for $62,000 and includes the 2 amiga 3000's. Apparently the amiga's have TI
- graphics accelerators for doing all the vector polygons.
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