From: bellcore!bellcore.com!nielsen@uunet.uu.net (Jakob Nielsen)
Subject: Re: Critique of ABC VR segment
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 91 17:26:31 GMT
Organization: Bellcore - Bell Communications Research


In article <1991Sep21.055134.2924@milton.u.washington.edu> rick@xing.unocal.com
(Richard Ottolini) writes:
>
>
>On Thurs 9/19 ABC's Prime Time had a 15 minute presentation of virtual
reality.
> The graphics came off well.  I was little concerned some viewers
>will confuse the film clip non-interactive graphics with the capabality of 
>current interactive VR systems.

On the other hand, from the general public's perspective, it does not matter
much whether a certain quality of graphics requires hours of Cray time per
second of animation when using current computers. Personal computers will have
sufficient power before this technology reaches the desktop of the average
computer user.

But I *still* think they ought to have pointed out what can be done now and
what was extrapolation.