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To: dybdahl who wrote (48401)	8/10/2000 11:20:25 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Embedding VR in MS Office won't grab the professional VR market. I mean, you wouldn't use a voice modem for voice response... Voice recognition is really more significant to the handheld market. As an input device it would multiply the demand for handhelds 20 fold. The key is hardware power. It is not a software problem. At last you will have to know, too, that English is not the most widely spoken language on planet earth - and I doubt this VR technology will be available in danish or italian. Once small factor hardware power is available, there would be no theoretical reason why it would be limited to any one particular language.

To: dybdahl who wrote (48401)	8/10/2000 12:59:26 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 74651

I agree with you. Especially about embedding VR in ms-office, who cares? Besides msft is endorsing their own non-XML standard for documents so any developers that want to do XML + v-XML (everybody) have no incentive to go with msft api's. Its just that here we have a new area, and ms (apparently) has invested, and they have no visibility whatsoever in the development community. This is an area where their desktop OS dominance will not help them, they would have to make it on technology alone. This is not the same msft that I knew even 3 years ago.