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From: esg@sodium.ATT.COM (Edward Gokhman)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Is VR a multimedia subject? (Was: Multimedia, Hypermedia, Hypertext?)
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Date: 11 Feb 91 18:13:00 GMT
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From article <3004@sodium.ATT.COM>, by esg@sodium.ATT.COM (Edward Gokhman):
> From article <1991Feb04.124036.340@abblund.se>, by nick@abblund.se:
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>> 3. Are subjects like Virtual Reality (or Cyberspace) part of multimedia?
> 
>
> They may be.
I'd like to add to it. Consider a combination of EyePhones, DataGlove,
and Convolvotron, with the latter providing the technology to
position sounds in 3-D space using headphones, correlating with
coordinates and movements of visuals provided by EyePhone. It is
a "classic" hypermedia situation. --Ed Gokhman