On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Douglas Eadline wrote:
Look if you want to do on-line gaming right
you need to bypass the physical input devices
and jack directly into the brain. That is
unless I'm already sitting in a chair (or pod)
and jacked into this reality. Now were did I
put my cool sunglasses :-)
Yeah, I keep waiting for the transducers, but they never quite appear.
Still using fingers to type, still using eyes to see. I do so want a
mobile neural interface backed by a small mountain of processors and a
petabyte or so of RAID. Transparent overlay of normal vision, noise
suppression capabilities of the ears, a few hundred movies, six month's
worth of music, all the e-books in the existence (all with a "dream
mode" where content is delivered at very low levels when I'm sleeping)
AND the the reverse ability to record dreams and create things in my
sleep.
Literally.
rgb
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Doug
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:05:13PM -0800, David Mathog wrote:
IB would be massive overkill for gaming, 100 (or even 10) baseT should
work just fine unless the network is hideously congested, in which case
the game is probably going to become unplayable due to dropped UDP
packets.
Modern games are moving towards realtime large-scale physical
simulations,
and there's a natural mapping of the terrain to a 2d grid (torus) or 3d
grid of nodes. (Unfortunately, e.g. Second Life seems to be written
in .Net (Mono) and partitioned by virtual servers, so no MPI there).
Yeah, and Second Life is pig-dog-slow over DSL, as well. I don't think
it puts much of a virtual world on your PC and relies on actually
rendering information sent from the servers. Not enough bandwidth or
server time in the world yet to make that work particularly well except
to e.g. University workstations with minimum 45 Mbps bottlenecks in
between...
rgb
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