From: Ken Meyering (ken@define.com)
Date: Wed Jul 14 1999 - 20:37:28 MDT
Life experience, digitized, becomes marketable content.
I make a thumbs-up gesture with my dataglove, and the Poser figure
acts it out. Put the gesture on the web, let others download,
receive a royalty in the form of tax-free electronic tokens.
Private commerce: from your electronic wallet to mine, in
micropayments. Surely, bureacrats would have my e-wallet hotwired
into U.S. Treasury or U.S. Postal Service accounts. So what.
My new Metacreations Poser v4.0 didn't deliver VRML export as
promised in advertisements. Why? The developers are focusing their
efforts on Metastream.
See http://www.define.com/brandX/misc/bowls/loyal-customers.htm
Apparently, animated figurines need to be able to conduct secure e-
commerce transactions. Here's a suggestion: make a VRML, or excuse
me, X3D, version of Uncle Sam with a bag-o-coins. He shows up on my
screen, shouts "TRUST NO. 1" (referring to "Number One" or the Big
One or Numero Uno as God is now called). For my psychological pain
and suffering related to the religious propaganda, I am awarded
58,341.6 Riegels. Convertable to just under $60,000 U.S.
How's the motion capture business doing now, with all the MEMS
widgets and high speed telemetry? It would be unfortunate if the
library of 3D behaviors was limited to the rich and priviledged
class. (I can just imagine a secret lab over at Microsoft Research,
filled with virtual actors creating whole news behavior libraries for
the third world- to be downloaded from Teledesic.) Not fair!!!
Nice that Defense Secretary was recently up here in the Seattle area
to give a speech at Microsoft. Number one defense software supplier.
Trust Number One.
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ken@define.com
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