Hi, Robin -- At 09:16 PM 11/3/02 -0800, you wrote: >Although I am quickly coming to terms with the idea that gaming on a >wearable may simply not be a viable idea. > Actually, once the casinos get over the idea that people might sit home and play standard casino things on a PC the way they do in their current physical spaces, they'll start to understand that their future lies in building (or redoing) large safe spaces in which wearables make highly imaginative virtual environments where gamers can interact *with one another*. Theme parks and casinos will converge. Within a decade you should have a very exciting arena in which to play. It'll be like a holodeck, but with the shared virtual reality generated by each participant's wearable -- instead of being wastefully generated with actual molecules of stuff and consuming far more energy than is necessary and also being inherently less safe. Cheers -- Carol -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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