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- From: "Richard M. Coffey" <c-crm@math.utah.edu>
- Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: Future short/long term forcasts?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.072417.3450@u.washington.edu>
- Originator: hlab@stein.u.washington.edu
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- Organization: University of Washington
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:29:28 GMT
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- in response to tolman@asylum.cs.utah.edu...
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- I tend to agree with ya Kenneth about the biggies taking over, but
- there may be a five - ten year lag time for this to take place. So everyone
- and their uncle will put out VR systems until someone decides that this or
- that is the best way to do things; and there's your five - ten years. Our
- mod seems to think that we won't see this flooding of the market for another
- five years, but our friends at Ono Sendai (TM) say that they are very close.
- Here another clue at how close we are (At least this is my interpretation...)
- look at SEGA's latest series of commercials. At the end of these commercials
- what sense do you get when you look at the SEGA logo. Perhaps they are
- hinting at some VR brewing at their labs. There are lots of rumors flying
- about both Nintendo and SEGA trying to put out the first HMD video game!
-
- So, what does this all mean for our Mr. Tolman? Well, it seems to me
- the more you know about everything the better off you are. Go to school,
- talk to Dave Johnson, and create VR's! Then show us how good you are, and
- then ask Bob Jacobson for a job... or maybe John Sculley... or maybe Ivan
- Sutherland... or maybe Jaron Lanier... (And you hear in the distance the
- theme song from Man From LaMancha)... or if you're really good you can ask Al
- Gore for some grant money and start your own VR company ( the music's getting
- louder now)... or maybe Steve Jobs... or (O.K. I'm being overpowered by the
- music).
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- I am also seeking to be a professional in the VR/VE/AR field. I am
- going in with the attitude that no matter what, I will have enough knowledge
- to be involved in some part of this exciting development of science. This is
- what I want to do and I am going to do it!
-
- ---Richard--- +------+ email: c-crm@math.utah.edu
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