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- From: Michael Almquist <squish@hitl.washington.edu>
- Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: Future short/long term economic forecasts?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.072253.3005@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: HITL vacationeer
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:29:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.063859.17246@hitl.washington.edu> Kenneth Tolman writes:
- > What, in your expert opinions, are the future economic prospects for
- >the field of virtual reality? (I am curious, because I am thinking of
- >banking a career on it, and I would like to hear opinions)
- You should search the archives and snag my review of the 2nd EFDPMA conference.
- Dr. Jacobson and Dr. Latta and I think Alan Wexelblat (oops sp?) all discussed
- the VR future and market. To sum it up:
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- Dr. Jacobson - soon - 1+ years
- Dr. Latta - not so soon - 5+ years
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- Alan talked about factors involved in making it work/take off.
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- Add my $0.02:
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- Squish - 2+ years its going to take off like wild fire - be there or
- eat ashes
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- - mike
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- VR: (VEE-R') n. 1) It's the Swiss Army knife of the mind.
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