From mconway@microsoft.com Fri May 8 19:11:43 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 TAA25858 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 19:11:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (zf5WCK+y/mkEN7AzG0DlVE/q13Juzea0@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA01203 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 19:11:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail5.microsoft.com (mail5.microsoft.com [131.107.3.31]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA25413 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Fri, 8 May 1998 16:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by INET-05-IMC with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Fri, 8 May 1998 16:11:33 -0700 Message-ID: <4FD6422BE942D111908D00805F3158DF05B266AB@red-msg-52.dns.microsoft.com> From: Matt Conway To: "'Jeff Pierce'" , 3D UI list <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu> Subject: RE: What is 3D good for? Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:11:26 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Status: RO > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Pierce [mailto:jpierce@cs.cmu.edu] > Sent: Friday, May 08, 1998 3:14 PM > To: 3D UI list > Subject: RE: What is 3D good for? > > > At 01:59 PM 5/8/98 -0700, Matt Conway wrote: > >At least USB is a start. > > I'm drawing a blank. What's USB? Universal Serial Bus. Allows a single, high-speed bus connection to PCs. Think of it as the replacement to the serial port without the IRQ hassles. Multiple devices can go on one port via chaining, which would at least get you to the point where you can plug two mice into a machine without it going all wiggy. Like you say, the OS needs to know what to do with that, and that's a problem still. > > So LBE might get 3D devices into people's home, it's just > going to take > awhile. 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...") > > Depends. An HMD version of Backdraft that I can experience > in my own home > (as opposed to going to Universal Studios) might be a good sell. The point I was trying to make is that backdraft isn't about the visuals, its about the heat and the noise and the spray. You're not going to get that in a box you take home. > Here's a hypothetical. Cameras are getting cheaper and > cheaper, yes? Pick > 5-6 locations at a football stadium. At each location, place enough > cameras at different angles to get full coverage. Now write > software that, > given head tracking info and the camera streams, stitches > together what the > person would see with his head at that angle in that seat. > > Now balance the cost of that setup (PC, trackers, HMD, satellite dish) > against 5 seasons of front row seats, plus associated travel costs. 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. 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...