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From: B645ZAW@UTARLG.UTA.EDU (STEPHEN TICE)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: Virtual Reality, Helmets, and Gloves
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Date: 10 Apr 91 21:55:00 GMT
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(from Stephen Tice, student at University of Texas at
 Arlington, B645ZAW@utarlg.uta.edu, *Save Time -> No Tag*)
 
In response to Warren Baird's question?
 
Do you group members mostly agree with these categorizations?
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alternate reality   - generic term for possible realities
                      (our own knowable _real_ reality might
                      be one of many)
 
artificial reality  - fabrication, not necessarily
                      reflective of mundane reality but
                      internally consistent, includes
                      Toon-worlds
 
augmented reality   - information enhancement of mundane
                      reality, like a heads-up display
 
consensual reality  - collective and/or distributed reality,
                      meta-category to virtual reality
 
mundane human real. - reality de jure :)
 
simulated  reality  - reflects mundane reality to some
                      degree, simplified physics, objects,
                      and interactions assumed, quantifiable
 
virtual reality     - reflects mundane reality to the point
                      of being indistinguishable from
                      mundane human reality (* an ideal *)
 
note 1: teleprecense, teleprosthetics, and telerobotics are
        tools used in mundane reality, not part of virtual
        reality
 
note 2: information visualization is not part of virtual
        reality, augmented or simulated reality maybe