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What we really need is good VR Glasses. Imagine a helmet type setup with the VR Glasses
and built in 3D Headphones. Now there's the future - the not too distant future I hope :))

Andrew MacPherson wrote:
> 
> >  Perhaps lookleft/lookright
> > running on satellite monitors?
> 
> Wouldn't that be superb? Given the ridiculous price of bottom end hardware, a couple of low
> spec PCs networked to give low res peripheral vision would be amazing. Mind you, it'd need
> a lot of tweaking to get right (the view angle might totally screw up your perspective is it
> wasn't right).
> 
> I doubt Win98's multiple monitor support could ever be much use for this... not unless you
> could run under NT and utilise a dual CPU machine and persuade three gfx accelerators to
> use different monitors. The 3 PC solution's probably cheaper and simpler!
> 
> Always wanted something like this for Quake (when I played a lot). I believe the guys at ID
> had Doom set up like this at some point, so it's not beyond the ability of coders.
> 
> Still, it'd be for a fairly small number of people, so it wouldn't really justify the development
> time. I still want it though :-)
> 
> Andrew McP

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 Byron Forbes
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    and

 http://www.frontiernet.net/~godsoe/bolt/home.htm
