Hi Clark, Thanks for your post. You might be right, about Telepresence making people a little sea sick. I know that I have read about pilots getting vertigo hours after they leave a Flight Simulator, if they spend too much time in it. It was a long time ago that I read this, but I think it it said that it "plays games" with their mind when they spend too much time in a simulated world (it might be an interesting experiment to see what would happen to an astronaut in outer space, if he had to wear a space helmut with Virtual Reality viewing, of different VR environments. Would the poor guy, get "double" space sick, or would it help his space sickness? Who knows?).
Anyways, my thinking on Telepresence with the Baseball game,is that it would start with a very basic model that is not an exact replica of the real world but is very close. Where everything that is unchanging is part of the fixed database, like the stadium. Each player's image could be in the database also, and the video cameras would just allow the computer to coordinate the movement of their images. More realistic versions could come as technology advances. I don't know what the possibility is of using radar (or laser scanners) and computers to identify objects and then "use the database to color them in" by matching the object to one in its database. For example if the computer has identified that the Grand Prize White Acura, has been driven onto the field it would match the image to one in its database, know what it is and use that information to fill in the data to make it look like a sharp crisp image of an Acura that could be viewed from any angle. When in reality, what you are seeing, may not be exactly what is there. Do you think it is possible to overlay images like this, if the computer needs to provide more data than is available from the camera?
Thanks,
JW |
