Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!snorkelwacker!mintaka!ogicse!blake!milton!wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM From: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: Brain/Environment "bottleneck" Message-ID: <8653@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Mar 90 04:37:26 GMT References: Sender: hlab@milton.acs.washington.edu Reply-To: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) Organization: Your typical phone company involved in your typical daydream. Lines: 24 Approved: hitl@hardy.u.washington.edu In article wex@sitting.pws.bull.com (Alan Wexelblat) writes: ]Jan Mikovsky was asking about the ability to do routine things or ]well-practiced things without having to expend higher-order brain power. Some of the people I've talked to at LLNL are speculating about what they'd like, and they'd really like to have two-eye 1Kx1Kx24bit-color at 30 frames/second, because that's about the most data input they think they can use - about 1Gbit/sec. It needs to be attached to the back-side of a Cray, because what they'd really like is for a couple of physicists to be able to walk around in a simulated nuclear reaction, having conversations about "what if it were a couple hundred degrees hotter?" or "let's make that wall a little thinner" "No, not that thin", or "magnify that spot there 100X". ] One of the cyberspace navigation techniques invented by Kim Fairchild ] and myself depends on muscle memory. It works moderately well. How do you attach to it - position-detection gloves, or head/eye motion detectors, or other stuff? [ Disclaimer: I don't do this stuff professionally (the LLNL stuff was doing datacomm.) The .signature was appropriate for a random discussion and I haven't found anything sufficiently weird to replace it.] -- # Bill Stewart AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs # Fax 949-4876. Sometimes found at Somerset 201-271-4712 # He put on the goggles, waved his data glove, and walked off into cyberspace. # Wasn't seen again for days.