From:	Arcady arcady@***.net
Subject:	More Things
Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:10:31 +700

>Do display/image links display their data on just one eye or on
>both?

Probably has settings so you can switch it around depending on comfort needs.
If I were the engineer doing the design that's what I'd do.

>How much of a VCR rig is headware and how much is bodyware, in terms of
>essence?

Don't know what the game says, but it ought to be 100% headware. All you should
need is a fast datajack over a fiber-optic line interfacing into software on
the vehicle that is NOT MicroSoft-written ( :) ). Most of the hardware needs
to be on the vehicle end. Anything nessesary to allow autopiloting. The rig
would just need to be able to overwrite the autopilot. But I don't know how
FASA actually does it.

>Speaking of rigging, where does that term originate from?

Hardwired is an old cyberpunk-genre novel that had riggers (but no cyberspace,
favoring a more realistic net). By Walter John Williams. The author later wrote
a suppliment to it for the Cyberpunk RPG. Don't know if it used the term rigger
or not.

Japanese animation has long featured the concept of 'rigging' and 'drones' via
psionics. Starting at least as early as Gundam which began either in the late
70's or early 80's.

The novel 'Islands in the Net' by Bruce Sterling; the best cyberpunk genre novel
ever written; featured drones but I don't recall any vehicle rigs.

So there's examples of it all over the place. The exact term 'rigger' and 'rigging'
may be FASA terms though. Not sure on that.