Forum Archive Index - May 2000

["Nigel Bree" <nbree@kcbbs.gen.nz>]

Julian Taylor wrote:
> what are u talking about
> reckon it sounds awesome based on the breif description of christains post
> the name alone sounds awesome
> are you not keen to check it out

You're being a little silly here. Anyone who bothers to follow the
technology
at all will be aware that literally hundreds of seemingly *huge* three-
dimensional viewing technologies have surfaced - with varying degrees of
fanfare - and foundered just over the past decade.

Look at the prices at http://deepvideo.com/products.html and consider for a
moment just how much resistance consumer HDTV products are facing in the
U.S.
at present, despite the breathtaking quality of the images they can produce.

Note that the Deep Video monitors are also *not* traditional scanned CRTs,
and so achieving comparable sizes to consumer televisions and being able to
manufacture them at remotely comparable prices is a *considerable* way off.

Then there is the small matter of producing real content for such screens.

> great kiwi innovation being bagged before its properly off ground?

No, just a wee dose of common sense. I'm also with the original poster in
having a less than enthusiastic view of Virtual Spectator's business
prospects, based on what I as a software developer myself consider to be a
fairly realistic appreciation of what is out there and going on in the
graphics and imaging world.

Enthusiasm is all very well, and these products do have some real potential.
But there are equally valid and very real reasons to view these as *highly*
speculative places to put your money.


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