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To: Pink Minion who wrote (50560)8/14/2001 11:42:57 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire  Respond to of 70976
 
>>Beside this is a software problem and not a benefit of cheaper chips, which I think was your question. I don't think the processing speed is a limitation anymore. <<

Cheaper chips fix lots of software problems. I'm not a VR expert but, as I understand it, a lot of the current software limitations result from the tradeoff between accuracy and reasonable processing time. Faster processing changes those tradeoffs.

Katherine