From: baba@Tymnet.COM (Duane Hentrich)
Subject: Re: Yes, there are VR video games
Date: 5 Jul 91 23:20:26 GMT
Organization: BT Tymnet Inc., San Jose CA



In article <1991Jul5.014549.8825@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai) writes:
|> I wonder what are the trends with regards to immediate commercial
|> applications of immature VR technology.

In regards  to Race Driving', at Great America (an amusement park) in Santa
Clara there is also a bank of these machines. They are hooked to one another
so that each player raced on the same course against the other drivers.
Close enough to my definition of virtual reality.

>From opening to closing I saw no seat unused. Seems that even immature VR
stuff like this could be a big moneymaker.

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