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From: jcs@crash.cts.com (John Schultz)
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Subject: Re: VR major/career questions
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Date: 16 Oct 90 18:16:45 GMT
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In article <9316@milton.u.washington.edu> dartvax!batcomputer!andyrose@uunet.UU.
NET (Andy Rose) writes:
>
>Definitely go to Cornell and major in math.
>
  While math is extremely useful for the actual implementation of VR (physics,
electronics, and comp.sci algorithms), you'll still need some knowledge in
human interface design.  This field is called human factors by some schools
and cognitive science by others (Human factors is a small subset of cog sci).
Some schools offer cogsci/human factors under psychology or engineering
design. USCD (where I graduated) now has a separate Cognitive Science
department. You should try to get a well rounded education in math, neural
nets, AI, physics, psychology, and of course, computer graphics.


  John