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- From: strength@milton.u.washington.edu (Julian Bleecker)
- Subject: Re: CULTURE: Movies other than Lawnmower Man...and that too!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.082055.4897@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:37:43 GMT
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- mango@esd.sgi.com writes:
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- > I dont think we should overlook one of the best VR films in my
- > opinion and that is BRAINSTORM. Direct feed to your brain. Emotions,
- > respiration the whole nine yards. It is a interesting concept being
- > able to record and reproduce your thoughts as well as others, and
- > then being able to share the same sensory experience. A little far
- > fetched maybe but so was TV 100 years ago.
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- Recent reports would indicate that `reading' thought patterns (albeit
- broad patterns) is happening now. See for example the latest
- Scientific American or the report in Nature by some University of
- Washington professors doing work on this sort of thing.
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- In the spirit of the `movies' thread, consider the not so hard sci-fi,
- but quasi-cyberpunkish *Until The End of The World* by Wim Wender (out
- of the theaters now and not in video unfortunately.) In Until.. a
- well-intentioned scientist develops a technology that allows one to
- record on video tape one's *dreams* which can then be played back on
- palm-sized HDTV video units in an eerily pixelated impressionistic
- rendering of what you dreamed. Fascinating, compelling and all that.
- But it turns out to be so powerful and moving that the few who try it
- start going a little bonkers. Anyway, the spooks catch on and kidnap
- the scientist and all of his gear for whatever black purpose they have
- in mind.
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- Seeing this reminded me of an essay in a journal called ETC. about the
- possibilities of using VR to build and experience one's dreams
- (self-help psychoanalysis?) in order to more fully understand the
- implications. Wender is clearly skeptical about such possibilities.
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- Julian
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