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From: dm@bbn.com (Dave Mankins)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
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Date: 27 Dec 88 19:54:32 GMT
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I went on a tour of the MIT Media Lab recently.  They have a Dataglove
attached to an HP-something-or-other.  After a bit of training the HP
to recognize your finger-position for grasping, you could manipulate some
Platonic solids placed on a grid.  

I tried juggling two of the solids.  Since the HP was bogged down
rendering polygons, and since objects would pass through your hand
unless the HP noticed that you were in ``grasp-position'', it was like
juggling on the moon after several pints of beer with hands made of
ectoplasm.

Cyberspace, here I come!
-- 
david mankins/dm@bbn.com