An excellent point Len! I had gotten myself all excited by this conference,
but maybe I would do better to just continue with developing my VR fiction
piece. It certainly would save me bucks... and those would be more $$ I
could afford to spend on surviving while creating my... ummmm... opus. :-)
On the subject of platform capabilities, you are totally right there. I was
musing on the same thing over the weekend, remembering 30 years ago when I
left school trying to save up enough money to buy a 4 function calculator.
Now I can buy my Dad a PalmV handheld computer and hardly blink!!! Speaking
of the Palm there is actually a Doom-like 3d game for it, and Cortona is
available for WinCE devices (the Palms don't use WinCE). What an amazing
world is developing. I can hardly wait to see what each new day brings.
Best wishes,
- Miriam
At 06:14 PM 28/01/2001 -0600, Bullard, Claude L \(Len\) wrote:
>That is cool.
>
>After looking at the worlds on a hotter platform
>this weekend, seeing real time motion, fast good
>sound, and so on, I am of the opinion that we
>no longer have the platform barriers we had
>three years ago to building very compelling
>vrml-lit. It is just time, imagination, and
>team work now. I wonder if perhaps in all
>these conferences, neat though they are, and
>all the credentialed speakers, if these folks
>are not the reincarnations of the academics
>who looked for The American Music in the
>early part of the twentieth century while
>down in Chicago, Louis Armstrong was making
>it. They did not hear it because *he*
>was not what they were looking for.
>
>See Ken Burns series on Jazz on PBS or
>however you get it in Oz. There are
>some insights in that history on one
>period when a new language of expression
>emerged, and just how little the well-heeled,
>well-educated, well-mannered, well-credentialed
>had to say about it because in reality, they
>had nothing to say.
>
>Those who did spoke well. The kids building
>Doom worlds may be leJazzHot as Clay Shirky
>points out!
>
>Len
>http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
>
>Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
>Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Miriam English [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 5:57 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: virtual storytelling conference
>
>
>Hiya folks,
>
>Anybody heard about the first Virtual Storytelling Conference, being
>organised in Avignon, France for September this year? It sounds wonderful.
>Read about it on:
>
> http://www.virtualstorytelling.com/ICVS2001/
>
>Best wishes,
>
> - Miriam
>
>
>Q. What is the similarity between an elephant and a grape?
>A. They are both purple... except for the elephant.
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Q. What is the similarity between an elephant and a grape?
A. They are both purple... except for the elephant.
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