In a message dated 7/23/00 5:56:11 PM Central Daylight Time,
philosborn@hotmail.com writes:
> I would be interested in further detail on this and other details of
> Benford's future scenarios. I had an article published in "Amiga User
> International" magazine circu 1995 in which I described in more detail how
> passive transponder chips or the like could be used to support an
"overlaid"
> reality, in which a lightweight hmd would project information overlaid on
> the visual field, triggered by ID signals pointing to the actual info
source
> via wireless net - or, more likely in the case Benford cites of the smart
> wall, telling your wireless PDA to tune to a local frequency for
shortrange
> RF, thus saving on download times.
Sasha Chislenko's concept of "enhanced reality" was the best description of
the workings of such a system I've seen:
http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/EnhancedReality.html
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
Attorney ::: Vice President, Extropy Institute ::: Wilderness Guide
http://users.aol.com/gburch1 -or- http://members.aol.com/gburch1
ICQ # 61112550
"We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know
enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another
question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."
-- Desmond Morris
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Oct 02 2000 - 17:35:10 MDT