Mobile Entertainment Portals0

Posted by Bru July 3, 2003 3:40 PM

An interesting article on Idearium about Mobile Entertainment Portals.

Spent lot of time in the past years thinking about how to build the cyberspace (today we'd say "the Matrix")... but now, now I begin to question the real usefulness of such a thing... What's the real advantage of an immersive environment against a sinthetic (but straight) communication? where's the line, the border between more data/information and sheer waste of bandwidth (and the risk of getting cognitively lost in the details)?

Neal Stephenson, in his book SnowCrash, described a nice point of view about this kind of problem: his own cyberspace (called Metaverse) had one specific special feature: the designers put some very special effort in the rendering of visual expression of the "avatars", in such a way as to transfer the real "feeling", along with every movement and micro-modification, to enable real social interaction between the users/inhabitants of the Metaverse.

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  1. Emotemail! From All things BruAugust 2, 2004 12:35 AM
    Found reference to this bit while surfing SmartMobs EmoteMail is an email client that is augmented to convey aspects of the writing context to the recipient. The client captures facial expressions and typing speed and introduces them as design elements...