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Walking Around In Spherical VR
GDaddy writes: "Space Daily has a report on a collaboration between University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group and VR Systems UK that spawned a VR system without dimensional boundaries. Called the Cybersphere, It combines the ease of use of the CAVE system (no head mounts, big projected walls), with the lack of distance limitations of, well, of no VR system developed so far. They say it allows a person to walk, run, and crawl smoothly and naturally around an arbitrarily large VR world by putting the user in a rolling sphere suspended on air bearings. But wouldn't the sphere's inertia cause a noticable lag when you start or stop walking, or when you change direction? They don't address it, and I'll remain dubious until I roll it on my own." -
Funny Stuff to Read
Christoph Lameter sent us Linux Apocalypse, written by he and one of the funnier things I have read in a while, and Matt Sergeant sent us this parody of the upcoming DOJ-MS Battle o' the Titans. -
Perl5.005 Released
Matt Sergeant writes " After months of extensive testing and fixes, Perl 5.005 is finally released. Highlights of 5.005 are: Merge with Win32 port, Threading and the Compiler. " More information can also be found exactly where you would expect it. Update It is out folks, CPAN is just a little lagged. Hang in there and it'll pop in.