From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Dec 12 14:39:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA01596 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:39:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA01579 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:39:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@partsnow.com) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id OAA09854; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:34:44 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from wildeweb(192.168.100.10) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma009852; Fri, 12 Dec 97 14:34:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3491BBC8.F499350C@partsnow.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:33:44 -0800 From: Don Wilde Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty CC: Multi Media Subject: Re: remote controls References: <199712122058.MAA02900@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo