Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:33:44 -0800 From: Don Wilde <don@partsnow.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Multi Media <multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: remote controls Message-ID: <3491BBC8.F499350C@partsnow.com> References: <199712122058.MAA02900@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty wrote:
>
> Well, you know we are trying to compete against Intel 8)
>
> Okay, I will take any input for a limited voice recognition system 8)
>
> Next step or perhaps in parallel is to teach FreeBSD gesture recognition
> the idea got triggered last week when I was sitting in front on my
> box and I sort of wave at my monitor come on I am a little bore
> here entertain me a little -- like play a cool tv show...
You don't need VR or gestures to be a couch potatoe, just a little
script...
while (1) {
sitcom
sitcom
sitcom
} /* :) */
>
> If I am not mistaken I think that the computer wearable types are doing
> intense research on gesture recognition.
>
so are the MITI types in Japan. Maybe we can get our Japanese
FreeBSD'ers to sneak in and do something besides check Bovine codes...
:)
> Last but not least it is not clear to me that we are building expensive
> TVs. The component costs keeps dropping down. It would not surprise
> me if the near future we can start building TVs in the $500 price
> range -- I meant FreeBSD boxes capable of being a TV.
>
Doesn't it just make you wake up giggling helplessly in the middle of
the night? My first computer -- $890 worth -- was an Intel SDK-86,
8086@4MHZ, 2K of 2102, 8K monitor ROM, 8 x 7-seg LED's and a hex keypad.
Didn't even have its own power supply.
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