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Subject: Re: Golf Tournaments Over The Internet

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:02:29 11/20/03

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On November 20, 2003 at 05:15:42, Graham Laight wrote:

>On November 19, 2003 at 12:23:44, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Yes but suppose in a few years the "Sony Robot" is good enough that I can
>>use it in a virtual reality mode, where I stand in a virtual reality booth with
>>my golf clubs, and the robot relays everything I need to see from the _real_
>>course.  I swing in my virtual reality booth, the robot mimics my swing
>>perfectly in the real course, and there we go.
>
>Will he buffer the data for the whole swing before he starts his shot?
>
>Maybe this could be Tiger's handicap - that the data for his shot does not get
>buffered - so the "Sony Tiger" golf swing will look like a jumpy internet video
>- with hilarious results!

No.  They'l use "sub-space" communications then (see Star Trek).  :)


>
>-g
>
>>We can't do that with golf, yet.  But we do it with chess _every_ single
>>day via the chess servers.



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