风靡全班的游戏作文怎么写?(12)


Foley‘s here, and I just love to tell this story.He knew my undergraduate advisor, Andy Van Dam, and I‘m at my first conference and I‘m just scared to death.And this icon in the user interface community walks up to me and just out of nowhere just gives me this huge bear hug and he says, that was from Andy.And that was when I thought, ok, maybe I can make it.Maybe I do belong.好,快进到1991 年 。我们早在维吉尼亚大学时做了个叫虚拟现实一天5 元的系统 。只是那些
令人难以置信的精彩东西的其中之一 。那时候作为一个资浅的教员,我非常战战兢兢 。吉姆.佛勒在这里,我很爱讲这个故事 。他认识我的本科导师,安迪.凡丹,我在我的第一次学术会
议上,我怕得要死 。这个用户界面圈的偶像走过来突然紧紧拥抱我说,这是来自安迪 。自当
时我就想,好吧,也许我能够成功 。也许我确实属于这一行 。
And a similar story is that this was just this unbelievable hit because at the time, everybody needed a half a million to do virtual reality.And everybody felt frustrated.And we literally hacked together a system for about five thousand dollars in parts and made a working VR system.And people were just like, oh my god, you know, the Hewlett Packard garage thing.This is so awesome.And so in giving this talk and the room has just gone wild, and during the Q and A, a guy named Tom
Furne, who was one of the big names in virtual reality at the time, he goes up to the microphone and he introduces himself.I didn‘t know what he looked like but I sure as hell knew the name.And he asked a question.And I was like, I‘m sorry did you say you were Tom Furne? And he said yes.I said, then I would love to answer your question, but first, will you have lunch with me tomorrow? [laughter] And there‘s
a lot in that little moment, there‘s a lot of humility but also asking a person where he can‘t poibly say no.[laughter]
另一个类似的故事是,我们的系统是超乎意想的成功,因为在那个时候,大家都需要50 万做
虚拟现实 。大家都为此感到沮丧 。而我们实际上用了5 千元部分的零件拼装了一套能用的系
统 。人们的反应是,我的上帝,惠普车库的故事又重来了 。令人震憾 。因此,我做报告时屋
里都沸腾了,在其后的问答时间里,一个叫汤姆.弗奈斯的人走到麦克风前介绍了他自己,他
是虚拟现实界那时的大腕 。我虽不认识他,但可是久闻大名 。他接着问了一个问题 。我说,
对不起,你说你是汤姆.弗奈斯?他说是的 。我说,那么我很愿意回答你的问题,但首先,你
愿意明天一起跟我吃午饭吗? [笑] ,这个小插曲寓意很深,这里面有很多谦卑,但也让那人
无法拒绝 。[笑] And so Imagineering a couple of years later was working on a virtual reality project.
This was top secret.They were denying the existence of a virtual reality attraction after the time that the publicity department was running the TV commercials.So Imagineering really had nailed this one tight.And it was the Aladdin attraction where you would fly a magic carpet, and the head mounted display, sometimes known as gator vision.And so I had an in.As soon as the project had just, you know they start running the TV commercials, and I had been asked to brief the Secretary of Defense on the state of virtual reality.OK, Fred Brooks and I had been asked to brief the Secretary of Defense, and that gave me an excuse.So I called them.I called Imagineering and I said, look, I‘m briefing the Secretary of Defense.I‘d like