| From: | Dave Sherohman <esper@*****.IMA.UMN.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Blind Deckers? |
| Date: | Mon, 21 Mar 1994 10:37:05 CST |
>you are all missing the point i was trying to make...
>now, if a blind decker is using this sound system, there is
>another time lag....sound waves are slower than neural/
>electrical waves...
That's silly. Any decker would use a neural interface, regardless of
whether his vitual reality is based on sight, sound, touch, emotion, or
whatever else.
>now, perhaps you could shave that time lag down by doing
>the same thing a normal decker does, use a neural interface,
>but channel the data in aural form into the temporal lobe
>of the brain...but since the matrix uses a universal
>(standardized) method of representing data, it would still
>have to take time to convert it to a different mode.
Perhaps this would apply to use of a standard (ie, visual) MPCP with a
conversion program sitting on top of it, but if the MPCP was written from
the ground up with the intent of being used for an audio (or whatever)
presentaion of the matrix, it would run no slower than a visual version.
Remember: The Matrix is just a series of electronic data pulses. A deck's
simsense rig converts this to visual data. An audio deck would convert
directly data -> sound, not data -> vision -> sound.
esper@***.umn.edu
