Google Earth rebuilds ancient Rome online

Man, I would love to see this implemented when the Virtual Reality-age comes this next decades! A full Colloseum with cheering crowds.. Great personalities of philosophers of that Age, the ambience, the harsh lives of people.. Wow.

*continues daydreaming*

Speaking of Virtual Reality, where the heck is it? Sure, there have been developments, but I remember hearing about it back in 1988. Back then, it sounded like some cool stuff was right around the corner. Guess the "corner" was up a far piece more than was expected.

AlexC,

It's all about economic incentives and some people with guts to start VR running. After that, more and more corporations will probably follow and get this technology with great potential running. Now people are just too afraid to make this first steps and leap of faith, because they want to play it safe. International meetings (by which many people are taking jets all over the world) would be a potential first reason to start Virtual Reality running. Virtual meetings, focussed on their line of work and all the necessary tools within their private surroundings. This is, if I remember correctly, already happening with 'Second Life', but it doesn't work the way some corporations would like to see. If the reasons to start this running keep piling up, we will come to a point where everyone wants to push this technology to a greater range of people.

Let's hope this is within the next decades (like the explosive growth of the internet).

Now imagine online interactive VR gaming where contestants meet in the Coliseum to battle it out and others can sit in the stands and watch, or VR meetings with the ability to choose the venue, as in Cesar's Palace, or the great Athenian Temple in Athens. What a way to give a VR Presentation. The possibilities are endless.