Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: They'll Look Like Toys? (Was: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <22379@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 12 Jun 91 22:25:33 GMT References: <5068@orbit.cts.com> <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <#g1H3+$o@cs.psu.edu> <22340@cbmvax.commodore.com> <50393@ut-emx.uucp> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 28 In article <50393@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes: >I hope not. I'm looking forward to lots of virtual reality stuff. Me too. But for this full fledged virtual reality stuff, you're talking about a boatload of gear beyond the computer. All kinds of stuff to fool senses other than your eyes. You aren't going to get the real thing at the kind of prices most home users can afford. That's why I like the idea of a neural interface; you don't need fancy magic gloves to make your fingers feel that hot, somewhat soft and slippery Boing! ball you just caught. The computer feeds your brain directly. That doesn't have the intrinsic expense of all the clever mechanics you would need to do it today. >Most people would only be passive users, but I think there would be enough >power/generative users that hot hardware would have steady demand. I think there will always be a steady demand. Hopefully a growing demand. You're reaching new people all the time. Some really need to upgrade, like those scientific users. But until something really new comes along, some new way to communicate to computer, some new kind of application generally useful but not served by common machines, etc., fewer and fewer users will really need to upgrade. The job of everyone's Sales and Marketing group, in many cases, is to convince them to upgrade anyway. Like the Power Up! program. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "This is my mistake. Let me make it good." -R.E.M.