From: jmelzer@aol.com (JMELZER)
Subject: Re: TECH: HMD
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:04:35 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)


>Interesting that you attribute the wooziness to the _high_ quality of
>the HMD; so many people have been promising it will go away as HMDs
>improve.  Do you have a more detailed account of this?

Don't confuse the wooziness of 1) full immersion and no motion cues
(vestibular-ocular mismatch) with 2) poorly aligned systems, with 3)
systems with long lag times. The info was annecdotal only, based upon
my personal experience and I attribute it to the vestibular-ocular
mismatch.

>Real is a hard standard.

I could not agree more!!

Regards,

Jim Melzer
jmelzer@aol.com