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In article <WEX.90Mar2090441@sitting.pws.bull.com> wex@sitting.pws.bull.com (Alan Wexelblat) writes:
]Jan Mikovsky was asking about the ability to do routine things or
]well-practiced things without having to expend higher-order brain power.

	Some of the people I've talked to at LLNL are speculating
	about what they'd like, and they'd really like to have two-eye
	1Kx1Kx24bit-color at 30 frames/second, because that's about
	the most data input they think they can use - about 1Gbit/sec.
	It needs to be attached to the back-side of a Cray,
	because what they'd really like is for a couple of physicists
	to be able to walk around in a simulated nuclear reaction,
	having conversations about "what if it were a couple hundred
	degrees hotter?" or "let's make that wall a little thinner"
	"No, not that thin", or "magnify that spot there 100X".

] One of the cyberspace navigation techniques invented by Kim Fairchild
] and myself depends on muscle memory.  It works moderately well.

	How do you attach to it - position-detection gloves, or
	head/eye motion detectors, or other stuff?

[ Disclaimer: I don't do this stuff professionally (the LLNL stuff
was doing datacomm.)  The .signature was appropriate for a random discussion
and I haven't found anything sufficiently weird to replace it.]

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# Bill Stewart AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs
# Fax 949-4876.  Sometimes found at Somerset 201-271-4712
# He put on the goggles, waved his data glove, and walked off into cyberspace.
# Wasn't seen again for days.