Once inside participants view a random selection of computer-generated objects. These include a telephone, a football and an umbrella.
Do you really need a virtual reality football? Why not use, I dunno, a football?
Computers can be useful for this, buy why not have a box of objects, and a computer that does the selection for administrators in both rooms? Double-blind, anyone?
The real question is, can you play Mike Tyson's Punch-Out when you're done?
Using your fists on someone... that I can see. The damage level is low (unless you're trained) and you get really tired really quickly.
Being married to a health care professional and hearing the stories of the ER, I know (secondhand) how wrong this is. Broken orbital bones happen all the time. Broken hands can take years to heal, and hurt like hell (just ask Fernando Vargas). The one picture in TFA shows a guy trying to knee another guy in the head. You get lucky and land flush, you're talking brain bleed, easily fatal.
Actually, in my limited time of martial arts sparring when I was young, I noticed that it was the novices and not the experts that seemed to hurt and get hurt more often than the experts. But this was sparring for points, not for damage.
I had one of the original Creative Muvo players, and it was great for how small it was, but the absence of a screen was a serious hinderance. You needed to listen to the first few seconds of each song in order to tell which it was- remembering a 30-song playlist exactly is out of the question.
Plus, the flash-based mp3 player market is much more crowded, so I doubt Apple could make inroads against the Creatives and Jen of Swedens and iRivers of the world. Remember, the hard drive mp3 market was much sparser when the original iPod was introduced.
An interesting corollary would be Bentham's/Foucault's idea of a Panopticon- a prison in which all prisoners would be watched by all other prisoners. The idea would be that everyone would control their behavior according to the norm because of the possiblity or likelihood that someone/everyone is watching.
Although I'd be surprised if the societal reaction to this kind of thing would be of sudden or increased desire to play by the rules, I'd be equally surprised if the powers that be aren't already aware of the concept.
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I understood this as the FTC getting ideas that only they could read write and execute, while I could only read.
But with improved microphones, I imagine you could whisper almost inaudibly. That would probably be even less noisy than a keyboard.
Once inside participants view a random selection of computer-generated objects. These include a telephone, a football and an umbrella.
Do you really need a virtual reality football? Why not use, I dunno, a football? Computers can be useful for this, buy why not have a box of objects, and a computer that does the selection for administrators in both rooms? Double-blind, anyone?
The real question is, can you play Mike Tyson's Punch-Out when you're done?
I had one of the original Creative Muvo players, and it was great for how small it was, but the absence of a screen was a serious hinderance. You needed to listen to the first few seconds of each song in order to tell which it was- remembering a 30-song playlist exactly is out of the question. Plus, the flash-based mp3 player market is much more crowded, so I doubt Apple could make inroads against the Creatives and Jen of Swedens and iRivers of the world. Remember, the hard drive mp3 market was much sparser when the original iPod was introduced.
An interesting corollary would be Bentham's/Foucault's idea of a Panopticon- a prison in which all prisoners would be watched by all other prisoners. The idea would be that everyone would control their behavior according to the norm because of the possiblity or likelihood that someone/everyone is watching.
Although I'd be surprised if the societal reaction to this kind of thing would be of sudden or increased desire to play by the rules, I'd be equally surprised if the powers that be aren't already aware of the concept.