To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (1352 ) 4/28/1999 1:00:00 AM From: Joe Wagner Respond to
Hi Scott, In 1993 there was a lot of hype starting about the Internet and Bell Atlantic was in the paper quite a bit. I had been working with preparing video presentations to sell some ideas, using one of these devices that allows you to do some fancy edits, freeze frames, etc... Very common stuff today with the video editing software, but anyways it hit me while I was doing some work and thinking about putting things into the video using a computer, the concept of Telepresence and putting your own scanned image into a computer network (with your realtime expressions projected onto it). I went to the library and researched the concept and discovered that part of what I was thinking,was already being done at research facilities and it was called Telepresence (People sitting in Virtual Reality conference rooms looking at each others virtual images). It is a weird concept and I think hard for most people to visualize (I even questioned myself a few times trying to think if what I was visualizing could be for real). Technology still has to advance quite a bit for it to reach its true potential and maybe as Clark mentions in his post, that it would make people nauseus in VR format. In Hologram format I could picture it being a success.
