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From: brucec%phoebus.labs.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Bruce Cohen;;50-662;LP=A;)
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Subject: Re: Yet Another Proposed Application (YAPA)
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Date: 23 Jan 91 19:39:43 GMT
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In article <14935@milton.u.washington.edu> well!naimark@apple.com (Michael Naima
rk) writes:
> 
> 
> Ever since the Lucasfilm's Editroid and Montage system (c1982, when "electroni
c
> cinema" came and went as fast as Francis C.'s Hollywood General purchase),
> tout le monde has realized that something as fast as a CMX (video editing
> computer but asci based) and as tactile (and spatialized) as film
> editing is the Hot Item for post-production. Both Editroid and Montage
> died, almost.
> 
> Several years later, the 2nd generation of these systems appeared, mac-based.
> Lucasfilm did their version for multimedia which they called "Econodroid."
> The Cadillac is the Avid system today.
> 
> This guy needs to check the past year's worth of video trade journels, where
> "desktop editing" is a common topic.

I am somewhat aware of the desktop editing field, though I haven't done
editing professionally since "Steenbeck" was the holy word in film, and
"Ampex" was the god of video (dating myself, for real!).  What I was
proposing was the same kind of system, and I should have attributed that
(sorry), but with the difference that you can arrange the screens all over
space, not just in front of you.  You then get at least a peripheral view
of everything in your field of vision, and can switch your attention very
rapidly, while stashing the inactive stuff literally behind your back..
Also, hand gestures are faster than using a mouse.

The point I was trying to make (and didn't very well, I guess) was that
here is an application which solves a current problem without a lot of the
more sophisticated trappings of VR, i.e. we don't have to wait as long for
the hardware and software to be available.
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