Pushing you a little here and thank you for your expertise, what would his vision even look like?
More like doing your work in a video game environment, I would think, putting words in his mouth.
These were incredibly early days. Video was JUST going onto the screen and there were still bugs in it.
Computer History - IBM DAVID - Data Audio Video Interactive Display Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyyunWDgEtY
When I went out to the CA Research Lab to make a video on a language for drawing pictures, it turned out that it could only draw a pine tree and a sun. So my husband spent the time while I wrote the script making it do a more complicated drawing. I was forced to find cutaways with cutting out clay, etc. That was a story. John Backus, of Fortran and Backus-Naurer Fame, usually worked out of his house in Twin Peaks, so I used his office for the clay cutting. Which is how I learned that oak has a wide grain. You’d see John’s manager sneaking a look both ways and running into John’s office to try to scrub out the clay. I actually took a whole set of my music videos to John’s group after the workday was done to show them what I was doing to TV shows. Then I crawled around on the floor during one of John’s group meetings to get more cutaways.
Computer History - IBM Almaden Escher - 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWlPgkxqpY4
Being able to add moving pieces onto the computer was pretty radical. There were two different projects looking at that - Magic Paper and Global Desktop.
Computer History - IBM Magic Paper Project - 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3bk4ogBe-c
Computer History - IBM Global Desktop - 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fYGWgxq_-E
Since I made videos for our head of Research, my videos were often his keynote address videos, so I made little music videos out of the projects.
Computer History - IBM Magic Paper Documents Music Video - 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t64e2wjJ9ao
Computer History - IBM Magic Paper Music Video - 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRN2GH0nBqc
Computer History - IBM Magic Paper Tablet Music Video - 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5bkeMUuMDg
First music video I ever made for him was for our Swiss lab that came to NY for me to make their video. The researcher had a Nobel Prize and I remember arguing with him all through one whole night about the script. It showed how to visualize noise on a telephone line running the new algorithm for the 19.2 KB modem, so when I went to a Common Lisp meeting in Hawaii, I was Secretary of the X3J13 group, I spent my spare time taking cutaways of telephone poles.
Computer History - Zurich Modem Constellations Music Video - 1988 - David Jameson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4OediOxvwc