From: 92105341@ccw208.bradford.ac.uk (D PARSON)
Subject: Re: APPS: TV game shows
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 15:24:01 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems


>VR's first game show
>====================
>
>"'AWOOGA AWOOGA!!', the irritating battle cry of the latest in
>gameshow hosts, somehow sums up the world's first virtual reality
>television program.
>
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>Interesting that the report refers to `the borg' doing all these things,
>not the people themselves. Perhaps that's due to the fact that it's
>a TV programme... maybe the viewer mainly sees some stick-figure running
>around in VirtualLand.
>
>John


Well, we're seeing it over in Britain and WOW!  Pretty good.  
There are also other variants of this basic idea..  The second team can 
drive a boat around to knock out bridges so the borg can't cross, that sort
of thing... Most interesting is the final game where there are two borgs who
race each other to the exit!

The only problem is the token 'Character,' Thesp, who 'lives in Cyber
World.'  Basically, he wears a white suit and there's some VERY DODGY
matte shots...  They could at least have digitised him to make him
look vaguely computer generated.  Oh well...
 
Yes, most of the program IS Virtually generated, and the actual
movement is pretty smooth...  They must have been running a HELL of a
lot of processors to get it this good...  (Maybe I'm just used to SLOW
Virtuality!)

Anyway, I'm meant to be writing a report on Virtual Reality for my
course...  If anyone has some interesting tidbits of knowledge then
PLEASE send them along...  My email's below but PLEASE put 'VR' in the
subject heading!

Thanks, Daryl...

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