I beleave VR is still very much everyone's dream. I see more products now inching closer to affordable VR. Like IR sensors for hats to track head movement.
I've personaly cobbled together a kind of entry level system I use to play games like Republic Commando and Star Wars Galaxies with. It's not the greatest as resolution is far from what you get on a monitor. And text, small ones, sometime become hard to read. But I am happy with it.
There are a number of improvements to the setup which could be made with some electrical engineering type skills. Which I don't have, but it's to play with none the less.
So VR isn't forgotton, I just don't think it's really gotton to the point yet where the manufacturers see enough of a profit window to come up with complete systems.
Put aside the conspiracy theory for a minute and look at it. The purpose of this cheap little device is to remove print spooling from your overworked NT and put it off to the side where you don't have to worry about it. (by cheap I mean it's $1300 compared to the $20000 NT box your using now) And even better is that it's doing this with our favorite OS.
Basically it's a replacement part. And however your unix is connected to your current NT print server will most likely transfer over to it.
Furthur more, it is running lpd, it is Linux based, and you can probly telnet to it. Thus you should have no problem setting it up as your unix print server as well. For all we know there is probly a readme on the device which explains how to do just that.
As I understand it, they process one work unit and just keep resending the results. The end result, take 9.5 hours to calculate one work unit then send it back to them 5000+ times. Thus putting yourself at the top of list.
Aparently it's easy to due with Unix clients, I don't know of a way to do it in Windows.
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I beleave VR is still very much everyone's dream. I see more products now inching closer to affordable VR. Like IR sensors for hats to track head movement.
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I've personaly cobbled together a kind of entry level system I use to play games like Republic Commando and Star Wars Galaxies with. It's not the greatest as resolution is far from what you get on a monitor. And text, small ones, sometime become hard to read. But I am happy with it.
Head Tracker (actualy taped to the headphones):
http://www.gyration.com/ultragt-compact.htm
Surround Sound:
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=
Head Mounted Display ($500 off eBay, although my are an older version I think)
http://www.i-glassesstore.com/iglassespc-3d.html
There are a number of improvements to the setup which could be made with some electrical engineering type skills. Which I don't have, but it's to play with none the less.
So VR isn't forgotton, I just don't think it's really gotton to the point yet where the manufacturers see enough of a profit window to come up with complete systems.
I wonder how this would effect college books. My university gave you up to the second week or so of class to return text books. Would this void that?
Put aside the conspiracy theory for a minute and look at it. The purpose of this cheap little device is to remove print spooling from your overworked NT and put it off to the side where you don't have to worry about it. (by cheap I mean it's $1300 compared to the $20000 NT box your using now) And even better is that it's doing this with our favorite OS.
Basically it's a replacement part. And however your unix is connected to your current NT print server will most likely transfer over to it.
Furthur more, it is running lpd, it is Linux based, and you can probly telnet to it. Thus you should have no problem setting it up as your unix print server as well. For all we know there is probly a readme on the device which explains how to do just that.
As I understand it, they process one work unit and just keep resending the results. The end result, take 9.5 hours to calculate one work unit then send it back to them 5000+ times. Thus putting yourself at the top of list.
Aparently it's easy to due with Unix clients, I don't know of a way to do it in Windows.