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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Bob Jacobson)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: We need a a VR primer!
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Date: 31 Mar 91 17:24:36 GMT
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The following note was posted by an involuntary lurker, who would like to
learn more about our field -- but has no easy place to start.  I think he
makes the case quite well for a primer.  Anyone want to take a shot at 
this much needed document?

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I'm a lurker, basically because I don't know much about VR, though I would
like to learn more.  Some of the articles have recently become a teensy bit
technical, not in terms of difficult concepts--I can follow all that, but
in terms of abbreviations that, once deciphered, I'm sure make perfect sense.
A _big_ help for us lurkers would be a VR primer, including basic terminology,
how performance is measured, what background is best for going in to VR, etc.