From: orpheus@reed.UUCP (P. Hawthorne)
Subject: Re: VR -> duty now for the future
Date: 30 Jan 91 08:24:35 GMT
Message-ID: <15979@reed.UUCP>
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR


. 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.

  I understood that the sense of time depended on the frequency of alpha
waves eminating from the brain itself. I suspect the sense of time loss is 
related to the proverb, "Time flies when you're having fun..."
  Hell, I lose a couple hours to a good video game all the time.


  orpheus@reed