From jpierce@cs.cmu.edu Fri May 8 20:07:40 1998 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA29048 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 20:07:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (YCw+rDVo/dPIxAy4au2M2A4XJnbyx48P@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA03986 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 20:07:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu (UX2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.102]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA26752 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Fri, 8 May 1998 17:07:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805090007.RAA26752@wheaten.hitl.washington.edu> Received: from ASYNC13-CS2.NET.CS.CMU.EDU by ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa24359; 8 May 98 20:07 EDT X-Sender: jpierce@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 20:05:22 -0400 To: 3D UI list <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu> From: Jeff Pierce Subject: RE: What is 3D good for? In-Reply-To: <4FD6422BE942D111908D00805F3158DF05B266AB@red-msg-52.dns.mi crosoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: RO At 04:11 PM 5/8/98 -0700, Matt Conway wrote: >Right, but LBEs, if they are to survive, must, almost by definition, offer >an experience that you can't get at home. When 3D is in the home, LBEs will >have to offer motion platforms, etc. (I can see it now....Mom : "No, johnny >you can't have a full motion platform in your bedroom...") Actually, this would be do-able as long as it doesn't have to be a rigid motion platform. Replace Johnny's waterbed with one of the inflatable motion bases Imagineering came up with. Although this does raise an interesting question: is the ability to customize the interface for each application (in this case a game) one of the reasons that arcades have hung on? Of course, I'm sure the ability to plunk down 50 cents to try something instead of $20-40 is also a factor. >There's probably a market for this sort of thing, but isn't part of the fun >of watching football doing it with your friends? This sounds like an >incredibly antisocial experience. Ok, we'll add to the cost by throwing a camera on the HMD, making you watch the game in a completely blue room, and then chromakey your friends into the seats next to you. There's already one attraction at an LBE in Japan that actually does this. Note that this also tags on an added expense for hardening the equipment against beer and pizza. >What about instrumenting a stadium with transmitters and giving the real >attendees Augmented Reality Binoculars so they can see the trails players >leave on the field, get their stats, etc... And it's easy to not use the augmentation, unlike Fox's damned glowing puck. ;) Jeff