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- Subject: Re: TV glasses and VR
- From: dleclair@netlink.cts.com (Douglas LeClair)
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:16:12 PST
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- > > This invention _MAY_ change VR, but what about cost? Cost is going to be
- > > relatively high until mass production is intiated, and even then it will
- > > most probably become obsolete, like everything else :)
- > >
- > > --
- >
- > Even so, if it deos become obsolete, all the better. I have friends
- > whose house had something near $50K in computer equipment, puchased for,
- > at the most, $1K. All of this equipment was `obsolete' by the standards
- > applicable, but worked fine to give them a decent Ethernet LAN and .5Gigs
- > of memory, with up to .1-.2Gigs out in the network. Obsolete is not
- > necesarily a bad thing.
- >
-
- Good Point! True, you can always find people "UPGRADING" in this
- high-technological society. But usually, and i say usually, BETTER is
- more expensive. Obsolete is sometimes bad when you are supposed to be the
- leader in technilogical advancement.
-
- /Doug/
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