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From: almquist@cis.udel.edu (Squish)
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Subject: Re: Consumer Markets for VR
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Date: 11 Dec 90 01:44:15 GMT
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In article <12617@milton.u.washington.edu> frerichs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David J Fr
erichs) writes:
>I am about to ask a question that should make most VR researchers stop and
>think...
>
>Other than interactive gaming, does anyone see any motivation for a consumer
>(ie layman who doesn't know much) to buy a consumer priced VR setup when one
>becomes available.
Have you looked into or read _The Mind Children_.  It describes a NEW approach
to learning using a VR world.  Imagine sitting under the apple tree with
Newton talking about gravity, experiencing history visually, etc. etc. etc.

>(I'm not looking for VR telephones or anything like that. I'm looking at this
>year not 5 yrs down the road.)
Question: Playing devil advocate for you, if we stop research in this area
how are we ever going to arrive at our ultimate system?

- Mike Almquist (almquist@cis.udel.edu)

"Engineers bring ideas to reality,
 Virtual Reality Idealists bring reality to ideas!", squish, Dec. 1990