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From: brandonl%gold.gvg.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Brandon Lovested)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: What is a virtual reality
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Date: 29 Aug 90 21:35:56 GMT
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In article <138900005@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> klw11037@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>This almost seems more a matter of definition of just *what* is the virtual
>reality. Is it the self consistent set of sensory input that is received
>from the output devices, in which case the "reality" is a function of the
>fidelity (to some extent, since the mind can fill in quite a lot given a 
>basic framework). If it is defined to be the "world" mapped into the 
>algorithms generating the VR, then the "reality" is not a function of the
>fidelity of the IO gear. 

Then VR is a subset of cyberspace.  Cyberspace is not limited to mapping
that which is real.

It will allow new ways of information expression not yet developed in
our normal perceptual space.



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