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- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: What are the best games around at the moment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.225845.22970@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 22:58:45 GMT
- References: <10867@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <720835250snx@cursci.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
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- >>>What I thought would be *really* nice with that technology would be a
- >>>walk-through art-gallery with imaged *real paintings*... not a game,
- >>>but a real way to view the art. (Roger, you idle just now? :-) )
- >>Nononono...
- >>What you want is Replay films on the walls :-)
-
- >That *had* crossed my mind! Damn good idea, isn't it! But could he do the
- >perspective view *and* multiple screens a la Wolf-3D? Probably not, but
- >you could fudge the game play so that they were, say, static displays on
- >virtual TV sets, and you had to be standing facing them before you could
- >reach over to turn them on (by virtual touch-screen? - have to keep the
- >interface really simple - this would be a *great* way to give 'VR' to the
- >great unwashed...)
-
- >The man is right. We've found Roger's mission at last - bring a new
- >computer access metaphor and VR to the masses :-)
-
- Personally, I think it would be far more useful to have an MPEG player, or
- at least an MPEG->replay convertor...
-
- And as to walking around in a gallery looking at pictures, that sounds very
- similar to some house-walks you can do on the domesday discs, and like
- some stuff I've seen on Macs, and about 50% of all the VR stuff I've seen
- on TV does it... doesn't seem very original to me... The only problem
- with VR is that it takes processor grunt... but that's becoming less of a
- problem every year...
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