Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!usc!samsung!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!milton!tomh@cs.fau.edu
From: tomh@cs.fau.edu (Tom Holroyd)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: VR -> duty now for the future
Message-ID: <15356@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 91 12:55:22 GMT
References: <15303@milton.u.washington.edu>
Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu
Organization: Florida Atlantic University
Lines: 12
Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu


> Once a sense of "being there" is developed, time dialation can occur.  Users
> can come out thinking only 15 minutes have passed when it has actually been
> 1 or 2 hours.  As a speculative explanation, this could be due to the lack
> of real-time events that are familiar to the user.  There is no ticking
> clock, travel time, etc. in VR, therefore the user has none of the references
> that are subconsciously used in everyday life.

Hang a virtual clock on a virtual wall.  (Don't display virtual time,
tho!)

tomh@bambi.ccs.fau.edu