From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 04:58:56 MST
Michael M. Butler writes:
> I definitely think mutispectral/multimode at high res would motivate me
> to go gargoyle sooner rather than later.
For me it's rather the untethered connectivity (we'll need wireless
flatrate for that, though), GPS/digital map combo and augmented
reality. I've resubbed to wear-hard@haven.org a couple of weeks ago,
and there has been definitely progress going on. Perhaps I don't need
a classical laptop, after all ;)
It would be interesting to see when digital camera people realize that
a few-megapixel (you've probably heard about Carver "silicon retina"
Mead's startup, http://www.foveon.net/ ) digital camera with ieee 1394
(currently 400 MBps, that's twice the bandwidth of 640x480 true colour
30 fps) can sustainably deliver quite a few frames per second even
without compression. PAL/NTSC is obsolete as well as HDTV is a
stillbirth, we're obviously moving to flexible-format multimedia.
The only astonishing thing is that most people don't seem to give a
damn.
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