Since there seem to be a ton of unthought-out posts on this I thought I'd lend some words. Although it's at the risk of only skimming most of the posts as I don't have the time.
The research for this, or at least the bulk of it, is being done at the University of Washington in the Human Interface Technology Lab (HITL). I've been to a presentation by the guy who heads the project and it actually is pretty cool. I first heard about it long ago. Another post said Microvision started talking about it in 1993 and I think that's about when I first heard about it. There's a large chunk of funding coming from the military, of course, and they'll have the first crack at it if not already. Also, Microvision had either a small prototype or a simulation of one at a job fair that I attend in the last year and it was pretty dang sweet I have to say. The prototypes that are at the UW (yes, they have in fact built them) use diode lasers in stead of LEDs. Truly, the diode lasers are fine as they put far less light in your eye than ambient light does but LEDs are more public-masses friendly. Anyway, the UW page for this is hitl.washington.edu/research/vrd/. They've probably got more technical details than Microvision does.
I'm not sure about other people but I am all over this. And I like the idea of the realtime rendered version of Myst but I am bit more timmid about that than Exile.
Well, the Army does have the capability but they might not have much for compatability on the 802.11 front. They have major equipment that sits in the back of a hum-v to establish wide area radio networks.
This stuff is being researched by the University of Washington with Microvision being the consumer path or whatever. They've been working on it for about 5 years with mucho funding from the military (of course). As for some of the comments about shooting a laser in your eye, these things will put less energy in your eye than normal ambient sunlight so it's quite alright, in theory, anyway.:) I've met, although briefly, the head of the research at the uw. Here's the url for the department if you're curious: The Human Interface Technology Lab (http://hitl.washington.edu)
Let's not forget how much other stuff has come down over the years with, most probably, very similar if not worse things on/in them. Our other space-craft if not just meteors and the like. We seem to be doing okay so far.
I think the idea is that you're always going to be sending from one machine and so, one domain. And, since at least some, perhaps many, smtp servers refuse to transport mail that isn't from or to their domain it's never really come up.
I know second-hand that the book was good. As someone involved in film-making, I also know that if you can't shoot the entire story, then you just completely remove a subplot (or 5) to make it shorter. So, with the story aside, and forgetting about the gratuitous dutch angles, I frankly liked the lighting. I enjoy the use of lighting to do more than just say, "this place should be brightly lit" or whatever. In this film, it was used to tell us what the atmosphere/environment was like. Anywhere that the Psychlos could breath and humans couldn't was purple and anywhere that humans could breath and psychlos couldn't was orangy-red. This lasts throughout the movie including Psychlo (the planet) and even when they're inside the Psychlo hover-craft thing. In those scenes, if you can see outside, it still shows the outside as the orange. Also, the choice of colors was interesting. Purple and yellow are pretty oposite of each contrast wise and so make a perfect combination to support the conflict between the Psychlos and the Humans. So there's my 2 bits, hope you liked 'em. "They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, they're not my problem." --Deckard
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Since there seem to be a ton of unthought-out posts on this I thought I'd lend some words. Although it's at the risk of only skimming most of the posts as I don't have the time.
The research for this, or at least the bulk of it, is being done at the University of Washington in the Human Interface Technology Lab (HITL). I've been to a presentation by the guy who heads the project and it actually is pretty cool. I first heard about it long ago. Another post said Microvision started talking about it in 1993 and I think that's about when I first heard about it. There's a large chunk of funding coming from the military, of course, and they'll have the first crack at it if not already. Also, Microvision had either a small prototype or a simulation of one at a job fair that I attend in the last year and it was pretty dang sweet I have to say. The prototypes that are at the UW (yes, they have in fact built them) use diode lasers in stead of LEDs. Truly, the diode lasers are fine as they put far less light in your eye than ambient light does but LEDs are more public-masses friendly. Anyway, the UW page for this is hitl.washington.edu/research/vrd/. They've probably got more technical details than Microvision does.
I'm not sure about other people but I am all over this. And I like the idea of the realtime rendered version of Myst but I am bit more timmid about that than Exile.
Well, the Army does have the capability but they might not have much for compatability on the 802.11 front. They have major equipment that sits in the back of a hum-v to establish wide area radio networks.
This stuff is being researched by the University of Washington with Microvision being the consumer path or whatever. They've been working on it for about 5 years with mucho funding from the military (of course). As for some of the comments about shooting a laser in your eye, these things will put less energy in your eye than normal ambient sunlight so it's quite alright, in theory, anyway. :) I've met, although briefly, the head of the research at the uw. Here's the url for the department if you're curious: The Human Interface Technology Lab (http://hitl.washington.edu)
Let's not forget how much other stuff has come down over the years with, most probably, very similar if not worse things on/in them. Our other space-craft if not just meteors and the like. We seem to be doing okay so far.
I think the idea is that you're always going to be sending from one machine and so, one domain. And, since at least some, perhaps many, smtp servers refuse to transport mail that isn't from or to their domain it's never really come up.
I know second-hand that the book was good. As someone involved in film-making, I also know that if you can't shoot the entire story, then you just completely remove a subplot (or 5) to make it shorter. So, with the story aside, and forgetting about the gratuitous dutch angles, I frankly liked the lighting. I enjoy the use of lighting to do more than just say, "this place should be brightly lit" or whatever. In this film, it was used to tell us what the atmosphere/environment was like. Anywhere that the Psychlos could breath and humans couldn't was purple and anywhere that humans could breath and psychlos couldn't was orangy-red. This lasts throughout the movie including Psychlo (the planet) and even when they're inside the Psychlo hover-craft thing. In those scenes, if you can see outside, it still shows the outside as the orange. Also, the choice of colors was interesting. Purple and yellow are pretty oposite of each contrast wise and so make a perfect combination to support the conflict between the Psychlos and the Humans. So there's my 2 bits, hope you liked 'em. "They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, they're not my problem." --Deckard