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Re: Unconventional wearable usage

Kevin Wang wrote:
> 
>  From: Pete Hardie <>
> >Two ideas leap to mind as nifty, but untested.
> >
> >1) true Cyranoids
> >       Need to deal with a car salesman, but hate haggling?  Got a friend
> >       who loves it? Get friend familiar with what you want/need/can afford,
> >       and go to the dealership with him across the street, both of you with
> >       wearables.  Friend has audio and video slaved to yours.  He feeds you
> >       dialog and/or pointers to bargain.  Add in the usefulness of web
> >       search for reasonable prices.
> 
> Neat idea, but impractical in implementation until the data you want to
> access (the web pages) are ultra fast, or if you sit down with a huge
> spreadsheet and the data pre-calculated and formatted.
> 
> Even if you had a T-1 link to your head, you're talking several seconds
> access time, and in several seconds, people can easily talk several
> sentences off.

Perhaps.  Still, having enough data ready ahead of time, and being able
to access it in a non-obvious manner would take the edge off a car
salesman's
pitch.

> >2) pseudo-telepathy 'hive mind'
> >       Have several wearable users hooked up via text or voice, in constant
> >       communication during a dsitributed task.  Use subvocal mikes to allow
> >       near-silent speech/
> 
> this more or less already exists, at least in the text sense.  irc,
> muds, or any of the other chat systems.

I don't think these are what I was aiming for - more a real-world
activity,
not simple conversation/typing/imagination.  What I have in mind is more
like a scene on one of those schlocky horror flicks, where the hero is 
trying to escape the town, but everyone who sees him can communicate
this
to all the others, so the whole pack of zombies/aliens/whatever can
converge
easily on the hero.  Although I have a much more wholesome intent :->

> 
> The real breakthrough would be live document editing, i.e. several
> people editing main.c at the same time and somewhere a central compile
> kicking off at specified points when all active editing users indicate
> it's okay to try and compile.

I don't know if this would work - I find the slow version of this
currently
available difficult to manage 2+ people's work on one file.
-- 
Pete Hardie                   |   Goalie, DVSG Dart Team
Scientific Atlanta            |
Digital Video Services Group  |

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