맛있는 베이킹, 요리 & 영어

All right, fast forward to 1991. We did a system back at the University of Virginia called Virtual Reality on Five Dollars a Day. Just one of those unbelievable spectacular things.

I was so scared back in those days as a junior academic.

Jim 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 huge and he says, that was from Andy. And that was when I thought, ok, maybe I can make it. Maybe I do belong.

And a similar story is that this was just this unbelievable hit because, at the time, everybody needed a half a million [dollars] 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 I'm giving this talk and the room has just gone wild, and during the Q and A, a guy named Tom Furness, 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 Furness? And he said yes. I said, then I would love to answer your question, but first, will you have lunch with me tomorrow?

* virtual reality 가상 현실

* bear hug 힘찬 포옹

* undergraduate advisor 지도교수

* hit 성공, 히트

* walk up to ~에게 다가가다

* out of nowhere 갑자기

* make it 성공하다

* hack together 빠르게 끼워 맞추다, 뚝딱 만들다

* big names 거물

He is one of the big names in virtual reality.

그는 가상 현실의 거물 중 한 명이다.

He is one of the big shots in virtual reality.

He is one of the top dogs in virtual reality.

He is one of the big kahunas in virtual reality.