Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!ogicse!milton!hlab From: B645ZAW@UTARLG.UTA.EDU (STEPHEN TICE) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: Wargames and Virtual Worlds (Was Re: Questions about BattleTech) Message-ID: <1991Apr27.020439.10272@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 27 Apr 91 01:36:00 GMT Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu (Human Int. Technology Lab) Organization: University of Washington Lines: 22 Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu >Re:[Bob's judgements and Sheb's fears] So much seriousness. Life may be just a videogame for all God's children. The existence we know might be a VR set up for cosmic reality. Our short 6000 years of history, 70 year life spans, and one planet sure don't call for so much gravity. As for the thread, less passive TV, more interactive media, lets get the damn computer off the desk and out into the real world. I like the idea of a Sony Cyberman. Just not one that channelizes the mind to a few scenarios. I want eyephones like sunglasses, and a keyboard with embedded sensors like a racing glove. I want to run through a real forest with virtual arrows showing the path. And I want to fly through a sphere representing all the worlds languages, reflecting the very structure of mind. Sure there are going to be virtual couch-potatoes and virtual-deviants, real problems to be planned for, in the mean time let's get on with making virtual reality real. _Stephen T._ --------< FREE CALIFORNIA! >