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From: wab2@po.cwru.edu (Wm. Beasley)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: What do people want in virtual reality?
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Date: 5 Feb 90 23:10:49 GMT
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I vote for:
1) Synaesthesia ("that sounds purple") in a controllable, tunable,
selectable implementation;
2) Capability to experience information flow and patterns in a
user-selectable direct sensory input modality ("feel with your
fingertips the texture on Unix; now reach over here and feel
the differing texture of Mac-OS");
3) Ability to overlay both of the above on regular old-fashioned
sensory input.

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              Howard Rheingold    hlr@well.sf.ca.us
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