From: Robert W. Lindeman [gogo@SEAS.GWU.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 1:08 PM
To: Jeff Pierce
Cc: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Idea for discussion: violating assumptions

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Jeff Pierce wrote:

> At 11:16 AM 8/3/99, Robert W. Lindeman wrote:
>
> >> 9) The world we perceive really is 3D
> >> 
> >> * pulling away current view as 2D image to reveal another reality
> >> * "pop up" worlds that user can fold up and put away
> >
> >- Web pages?
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean.  Could you say more?

What I was thinkng of is the notion of portals being 2D representations,
just as Web page links represent links to other pages (or worlds). You
pop-up worlds could be accessed like a hand-held (virtual) browser. Does
this make any sense?

> >b) You only have 2 hands
> >   * Can we activate/manipulate multiple (>2) hands?
> 
> Another good one.  You can imagine having hands you're not currently using
> holding stuff you'll need later.
> 
> I thought about something similar awhile back for CSCW: what if you attach
> multiple arms to the user, and then allow remote users to work different
> pairs?  The working title was "Octopus Telepresence".  ;)


Keep storming!

-Rob
Yes. This seems like a good thing to explore...

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