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From: jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: Motion Sickness and VR
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Date: 18 Jan 91 21:45:14 GMT
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In article <1991Jan18.185231.17365@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
sharp@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp) writes:
>    This is not news. Meridith Bricken at the First Conference on
>Cyberspace made the same comments. Just because you are in a virtual
>world, does not mean you can get rid of cues we use. That means you
>need a floor, an up, a down, etc.
>
>    It does not mean that future generations will need these things,
>but we certainly do.

Ah, but when are these cues learned?  And what effect would not learning
these cues we take for granted have when dealing with material reality?