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zeroq 4 hours ago

Yes!

The booth depicted on the 1000CS image looks exactly how I recall it, and the screenshot looks very similar to how I remember the game (minus dragon, and mine was fully wireframe), but the map layout looks very similar. It has this Q3DM17 vibe I was talking about.

Isn't this crazy, that we had this tech in ~'91 and it's still not just there yet?

On similar note - around that time, mid 90s, my father also took my to CEBIT. One building was almost fully occupied by Intel or IBM and they had different sections dedicated to all sorts of cool stuff. One of I won't forget was straight out of Minority Report, only many years earlier.

They had a whole section dedicated to showcasing a "smart watch". Imagine Casio G-Shock but with Linux. You could navigate options by twisting your wrist (up or down the menu) and you would press the screen or button to select an option.

They had different scenarios built in form of an amusement park - from restaurant where you would walk in with your watch - it would talk to the relay at the door and download menu for you just so you could twist your wrist to select your meal and order it without a human interaction and... leave without interaction as well, because the relay at the door would charge you based on your prior selection.

Or - and that was straight out of Minority Report - a scenario of an airport, where you would disembark at your location and walk past a big screen that would talk to your watch and display travel information for you, prompting question if you'd like to order a taxi to your destination, based on your data.

m463 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I remember a guy I know went to japan/asia around 1985ish and came back with a watch. It had hands, but also a small LCD display. You could draw numbers on the face with your finger, like 6 then X then 3 then = and the LCD would show the values, and finally 18

This is completely uninteresting now, but this was 40 years ago

EDIT: I think Casio AT-552

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aQHnyZdgF4

somenameforme an hour ago | parent [-]

It was a really interesting and weird time growing up when Japan was the king of tech. I had a friend who's dad was often over there and bringing all sorts of weird stuff back. There was this NES/Famicon game where you played with a sort of gyroscope. I have no idea how you were supposed to play the game, but found the gyroscope endlessly fascinating. Then of course there were the pirated cartridges with 100 in 1 type games. Oh then we found the box full of his dad's "special" games. Ah, good times.

vardump 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

Special games? I thought NES was controlled by Nintendo?

intrasight 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Isn't this crazy, that we had this tech in ~'91 and it's still not just there yet?

Not really, because feeding us ads and AI slop attracted all the talent.