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From: andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick)
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Subject: Re: Reference to MUD newsgroup (Was Re: Virtual Reality)
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Date: 23 Nov 90 03:53:42 GMT
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On Nov 22,  7:47pm, Human Int. Technology Lab wrote:
} Subject: Re: Reference to MUD newsgroup (Was Re: Virtual Reality)
| But *how* is "the ability to interact with other people in virtual
| space" being explored in MUDs?  Systematically, or just anecdotally.
| I wonder whether D&D has much advanced our ability to design virtual
| worlds.
| 
| Bob J.
| s.v-w
}-- End of excerpt from Human Int. Technology Lab

Anecdotally, of course.  But sometimes in new fields anecdotal
evidence is all that you have.  This does not make the information
necesarily invalid or uninteresting.

I think D&D has told us what people like.  Who would have thought that
people would pay for an nearly-empty box containing a very small
booklet telling you how to sit and imagine your someplace else.




-- 
Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
               andrew@calvin.doc.CA    andrew@doccrc.BITNET
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