From: amundson@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Tugrik d'Itichi)
Subject: Re: CULTURE: More Lawnmower Man (Was Re: SOC: The Best Virtual
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 1992 08:57:46 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Feb29.085746.9419@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.



On 'LawnMower man':  Yes, it was written by Stephan King; it is a short
story of his, if I am correct.  Yes, it's a horror story. 

I don't know about the exact plot treatment here, but a good example of
what to expect is this:  a scene, of a man strapped and bound into a
chair, and into a full VR suit, 'stuck' in the VR as you will... and 
inside the VR, a gross representation of a man screaming at him, 
"I am GOD HERE".

From what I know, it uses existing real VR equipment as far as the eyephones,
datagloves, bodysuits, etc.  The rendering is all pre-done high power stuff,
though: much improved from what we can actually do nowadays in realtime.