Posts by Sprismoid 18 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Feb 2013
"And have you every seen what happens if you short out a lead-acid battery with a spanner?"
Yeah. My father shorted out two big batteries on his boat once - not funny and he was lucky the flying spanner didn't kill him. It did make a fine mess of his face though (just barely missing an eye), and knocked him unconscious. He recovered fine though.
Peter
My father tracked the first orbit of Sputnik in Dublin using a rig he designed and built himself! Our family grew up with the sounds of various Russian and US satellites ringing around the house.. No wonder my sister built a SaturnV instead of a doll's house :) And I ended up here!!
Kim Jung whatever could use this to make an energy profit from the regular marches he organises with high energy (?) footfalls?
Or get those in prison camps to walk a lot - for their health?
Now could this be part of a solution for obesity? :)
Mines the one with lead lining - to make me more productive..
Well, I still have my VPL and Virtual Research headsets from the early 90's and have been waiting patiently for the tech to "come of age" since then. To me it does seem as if we are really on the verge of the breakthrough we dreamed of when we were working with Division Transputer based parallel systems and then the SGI Reality Engine hardware way back then!
Roll it on I say..
I really want to get back into this business..
Peter
The only 3D that matters is fully immersive stereoscopic..
We were doing it commercially from 1990 in Virtual Studios in Barnes in London.. We waited for the technology to mature, saw the retinal imaging prototypes etc. But where is it?
This will be a real game changer when it finally appears. I remember that some of the big corporations were worried about potential lawsuits resulting from what we called "reality clash", the effect of disorientation when you come out of the virtual space. To me that just proves it works.
I spent thousands of hours in low res immersive spaces and I'm ok.. :-)
Roll on the revolution!
Why not send a number of probes out on slightly diverging vectors, forming a very long baseline optical/radio telescope, with the center probe aimed at the system.
Then we would start to get massively improved resolution very quickly, and first hand data 22 years after the center probe got close.
It would make the mission a lot more compelling, don't you think?
Peter
Must visit this..
In the eighties I was one of those Fairlight programmers, and had a wonderful time!!
I owned three Fairlight systems over the years, a Synclavier, and a PPG WaveTerm system!! That was back when technology cost a lot :-)
Ah, those were the days. Nothing compares (still) to the sound of the CMI III as a sampler.
Peter
Having tried a prototype Retinal Imaging system at the University of Washington back in 1995 (Last century, like!) and been totally blown away and in awe of the potential for "hyper-realistic" (i.e. images that appear more vivid than the real world, I am convinced it is the game changing technology that will take VR and AR into the true mainstream.
It will then render(!) all other methods of HCI redundant, I think...
Peter
We should remember that the exploration of the past was also driven by the financial motive. Columbus was looking for riches for the queen of Spain, the wild west was conquered for gold etc..
Maybe DSI and the rest are really the natural heirs of that drive.
I wish them luck.
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I had better get coding or I won't be able to afford either-
A: a ticket with Bill &Co, or
B: a mind transfer into the probe thingy A.I., or
C: oh and why do we always want to put a 'C' in every list of alternatives??
It's all too much :-)
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