the technology for the virtual party is not too far away. check out
tactile studio's insanely cool demo called tactile1200 at:
http://www.crl.com/~tactile/demos.html.
it's a photorendered animated pair of 1200's complete with pitch
control, thumbdrag, mixer with crossfade. there are two decently
slamming locked grooves running which you can beatmatch or trainwreck to
your heart's content.
not exactly like the realthing, but it sure attracts some looks when you
go for a quick jones on the powerbook on the plane.
they even have a shockwave applet version now.
take tactile1200, realaudio, cu-seeme, cthugha, a couple of rolls of
duct tape and a shitload of bandwidth, and we can almost pull off the
virtual vibe. does anyone out there have the technical knowhow to
cobble it together?
ob content on now: drexciya: davey jone's locker : from true people.
peeeeeeece,
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