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To: Robert Rose who wrote (27226)	11/19/1998 11:14:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 164684

Don't pretend to convince you otherwise, at this point, but have read articles that lead me to believe that what you don't believe may in fact happen within our lifetimes.... These are truly astonishing times.... Correction: Those will be truly astonishing times, if they ever happen. Consider the obstacles: For the "three-dimensional" experience of being immersed in a place, you simply have to have the picture all around you. Anything else, and you are simply peering into a box; an outsider looking in. There are already 3-d cameras, and the technology to project the pictures so that the seams are hardly noticable. But there are; alas, still limitations: You are not "there"; i.e. you are the captive of where cameraman chooses to go. You cannot, for instance, choose to pause and go into a shop, or pause to look at a menu on the door of a restaurant. And you certainly cannot go inside, sit down, and order and eat a meal! Oh, and you still need a room with bare walls a little other "clutter" such as furnishings. Gee, a 3 bedroom house just became a 4 bedroom house, because of the "necessity" of taking "3-d" tours instead of simply buying a $250 plane fare and getting out and actually going there to experience the real thing! Some things, my friend, are not going to happen. The "virtual vacation" is just one more of those things.

To: Robert Rose who wrote (27226)	11/19/1998 11:21:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Darn, my hi-tech virtual vacation was just had a blackout, caused by someone named "squid": --------- ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved ------------------------------------------------------------------------ While trying to retrieve the URL: N/A The following error was encountered: •Connection Lifetime Expired Squid has terminated the request because it has exceeded the maximum connection lifetime. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Generated Fri, 20 Nov 1998 04:11:50 GMT by si4.go2net.com (Squid/2.0.RELEASE) ---------- Gotta love those virtual vacations.