From: jon@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)
Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: Virtual Reality is Dead! Long Live Virtual Reality!
Date: 9 May 1997 16:36:41 -0400
Message-ID: <5l01sp$kgd@watt.cs.unc.edu>
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


In article <199705091409.JAA20127@neuman.interaccess.com>,
Virtual Worlds, Inc. <vworlds@VWORLDS.COM> wrote:
>What will come? Hard to say. But there are indications on the horizon.
>Virtual displays you hold in your hand and display information while
>your are on the road.	Such displays as from the Motorola's
>miniature virtual display using GaAs or Kopin's Cyber Display may
>actually do something useful by providing access to information while
>you are out on the road.

    Hopefully only information relevant to driving. The roads are
dangerous enough as is.

    There might be something to be said for a heads-up display for
projecting maps and such - it could actually improve safety, at least
by comparison to trying to read a paper map and drive at the same
time. But that's not VR by a long shot, in my book.

    Jon
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jon@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)