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From: bcsaic!chrise@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Chris Esposito)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: EyePhones Question
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Date: 3 Dec 90 20:35:22 GMT
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In article <11698@milton.u.washington.edu> pepke@SCRI1.SCRI.FSU.EDU (Eric
Pepke) writes:

>There are very few people who have spent more than a few minutes inside 
>one of these things.  Those that have say that after a while you adjust to 
>it.  When I get mine working, I'll let you know.

I figure I've spent a total of about 20 hours wearing VPL Eyephones since
early October with no noticeable effects as yet.  I find that with the
inter-ocular distance set properly, the 3-D effects are are fairly good as
soon as I put them on but improve a bit more after I have been inside the
virtual world for more than 5 minutes or so.  Taking the 'phones off and
coming back to the real world then becomes a slightly unsettling experience -
it's almost as if while inside you adapted somewhat to the lower resolution and
slower update rates and then had to switch back.  
-- 
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind" - Dan Quayle at a Weight Watchers group
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