From: bluefire@well.com (Bob Jacobson)
Subject: Re: HUMAN-FACTORS: A real, customer conceived VR app
Date: 8 Oct 1996 16:15:00 GMT
Message-ID: <53dum4$krs@filth.well.com>
Organization: The Well, San Francisco, CA


Ian C R Mapleson writes,

>You guys (and I basically mean all the 'professionals' posting here)
>have never really accepted that the *largest* commercial market for VR
>systems, especially HMDs, is the entertainment market. 

Could be, Ian, but gamers have never proven ardent buyers of
peripherals, other than joysticks.  All these little people dinking
along with their Playmen, Playkids, and so forth are unlikely to don
helmets while doing their thumbwork.

Bob
bluefire@well.com (Bob Jacobson)
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