Commenting here in 2011 i wish that Virtual Reality lasted in some form and i lament that Douglas Adams will never see the ipad, the groth of the internet and its many ways of connecting the world and a miriad of other tech that he would have loved.
Holy Mackerel! That glove! I worked with the same kind in 1991 at the Syracuse University VR lab. It was a prototype for the rather simplistic device that was turned into the Nintendo Power Glove. What looks like wires in the picture are really single fiber optic strands. Each finger had 255 positions. The black lump on the back of the hand was half of a magnetic resonance device. The two halves together located the glove in 3 Dimensional space and measured 3 axis of rotation. An early WiiMote!
I belive that the Natal project will soon get us that much closer to that concept, it seems that popole wnat more then just to walk around in a virtual realty, they want to play in in, swim in it, feel in and talk to it.
soon this might be possible but to reach this point will take time.
Commenting here in 2011 i wish that Virtual Reality lasted in some form and i lament that Douglas Adams will never see the ipad, the groth of the internet and its many ways of connecting the world and a miriad of other tech that he would have loved.
Akco007 7 months ago
Unfortunately, I stopped enjoying this when I realised that Douglas didn't even live to see 2005. Fuck you, God. Fuck you.
Applemask 8 months ago
what happened to virtual reality??? They were going on about it 15 years ago and NOTHING HAPPENED.
all they're selling is nintedo wii and all that shit. OOH slightly higher resolution
and douglas is DEAD
wtf
wt
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prgrss
natmanprime 1 year ago
Holy Mackerel! That glove! I worked with the same kind in 1991 at the Syracuse University VR lab. It was a prototype for the rather simplistic device that was turned into the Nintendo Power Glove. What looks like wires in the picture are really single fiber optic strands. Each finger had 255 positions. The black lump on the back of the hand was half of a magnetic resonance device. The two halves together located the glove in 3 Dimensional space and measured 3 axis of rotation. An early WiiMote!
iDoDew 3 years ago 4
I belive that the Natal project will soon get us that much closer to that concept, it seems that popole wnat more then just to walk around in a virtual realty, they want to play in in, swim in it, feel in and talk to it.
soon this might be possible but to reach this point will take time.
MikesGoAcademy 2 years ago
all i have to say is it's 2008 where's the virtual realitly? granted we do have all the info in the world at our finger tips but i still want vr.
mikofbableon 3 years ago 2
Second Life pre-visualised, TV pronounced dead, Interactivity in TV programming presented as the next step. blimey we've come a long way.
Any chance of an update programme - surely BBC Four could manage something like this?
penguincool 3 years ago 3
thanks so much for posting this. Fascinating!
roburtsmyth 4 years ago 6