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From: jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: VR Sensual Feedback
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Date: 16 Jan 91 23:13:35 GMT
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In article <1991Jan16.015925.24590@agate.berkeley.edu>
latta@sting.Berkeley.EDU (Craig R. Latta) writes:
>p.s. As long as we cannot eat in cyberspace, I think the whole idea is a 
>        bit overrated.

Sensual feedback?  Does this mean people want to simulate sex with Marilyn
Monroe, Rudolph Valentino, or other critters in cyberspace?  Or did you mean
sensory feedback?  If the former, I'm sure the project will be technically
challenging.  You'd undoubtedly have a lot of volunteers for beta-testing.
And this would be a cool way to get funding from decadent rich people who
have nothing better to do with their time and money.

[Moderator's Comment:

[Although this comment verges on the supercilious, I am posting it because
it is a sentiment commonly expressed away from this newsgroup.  I was called
the other day by Copley Radio Syndication, who wanted to do a story on
"virtual sex."  "But no one is doing virtual sex, except maybe on TV, I
replied.  Don't you want to hear about the industrial symposium we're
planning and real prospects for the VR medium?"  "No," my interlocutor
replied, "That's too complex.  We're radio, you know?" and said good-bye.

[So it's worth discussing the ways about which our field is spoken. -- Bob]