From: "Dale I. Newfield" <din5w@dot.cs.virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: HUMAN-FACTORS: A real, customer conceived VR app
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:28:10 GMT
Message-ID: <DzqLqy.Fq3@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: University of Virginia



In article <01bbc02e$d3796ec0$244b2299@aeon.divelabs.com>,
Peter Rothman <prothman@metatools.com> wrote:
>The future of HMDs is something like the "walkman".  If I had told you
>that people would walk around with stereos on their heads isolating
>themselves from others, before Sony introduced the Walkman, you would
>have thought I didn't know what I was talking about.  The Walkman
>created an entirely new product category (personal stereos).

That analogy is obviously leading down the wrong path.  If people
wanted personal TV's, the "watchman" wouldn't have flopped.

-Dale Newfield
<din5w@dot.cs.virginia.edu>