HAMPTON, N.H. - Ever wish you could experience the "holodeck," the 3-D virtual environment aboard the Starship Enterprise? There's a company that believes it's come close, letting video game players play with huge, high-definition screens that envelop the user.
The company's test site features 42 gaming stations with high-speed personal computers and high-definition screens ranging in size from 17 inches to 13 feet. Then there's the "half-pipe," which features a screen that is 20 feet wide and 12 feet high. Another creation is a sphere, which is 20 feet in diameter and eventually will offer a 360-degree wraparound gaming effect. The gamer sits inside the sphere on a robot that rumbles, banks, and spins out, providing many of the same effects as a flight simulator.
Pricing will be $5 an hour and slightly less for people willing to pay a $40 annual membership fee. McKittrick said he expects to charge $1 a minute, or $60 an hour, to play the sphere or half-pipe. Training on any game is free.
Target markets include long-term gamers, businesses and exotic educational uses — McKittrick noted that an engineer working for race car driver Roger Penske spent a week exploring whether the sphere could be used as a training site.
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I believe the word was "INDUCE"Originally Posted by aqlo
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pffft lawyers
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somehow this guy reminds me of wipe out
is he him?
hey last i swear.....getting the hang of this on the fly.......must take my ADD pills pronto.
Time will tell
And no offense to soulxtc, but since when do we start letting new people be news mods?
Errr what exactly IS your association here?
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i ll show you mine if u show me yours...........loooo...........skype?.......soulx tc
I have 5,219 reason why I dont have to show you mine
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So how was no 1?
hmm
are you yoda soul?
well, yoda is wise, sexy, and suave, but so too is he green, 2 ft tall, and of hunched back. I guess that puts me somewhere in between.
Turned to the zeropaid side, you have! Much fear, i sense in you hhmmmm!!!.
Quasimodo?
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
uh body grows tired, weary, must go drink now..........been taking calls from my aunt at the same time as I've been workin on this the last 2+ hours ....she lives in a parish next to New Orleans and says its literally like Hell on Earth over there right now. Shes okay, but house is a wreck. Pretty crazy how Mother Nature reminds you from time to time that she's still just that - the Mother of us all, always has and always will be, forget it, and she gives u a good smack every now and then.
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