From jpierce@cs.cmu.edu Fri May 22 15:04:21 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 PAA04335 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 15:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu ([128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA00652 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 15:04:17 -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 MAA13256 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Fri, 22 May 1998 12:03:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805221903.MAA13256@wheaten.hitl.washington.edu> Received: from ASYNC8-CS1.NET.CS.CMU.EDU by ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa19169; 22 May 98 15:03 EDT X-Sender: jpierce@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:00:50 -0400 To: "3DUI (E-mail)" <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu> From: Jeff Pierce Subject: Re: Kids Room .. In-Reply-To: References: <5F68209F7E4BD111A5F500805FFE35B905797753@red-msg-54.dns.microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: RO At 10:00 AM 5/22/98 -0700, Mark Billinghurst wrote: > > I have a video of Kids Room in action if any people in the Seattle Area > want to see it - it's very cool, although the image processing used was a > little simple and relied heavily on the story line .. This was actually one of the things I really liked about Kids Room: they realized they could get away with simpler technology by constraining the user with story. Instead of "Oh, the technology can't do that" you have "That doesn't make any sense in the story". The best sort of constraint is when the user never realizes there's something they can't do. That's good design in my book. Jeff