From: rick@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: VR defined
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1991 18:50:25 GMT
Organization: Unocal Corporation, Anaheim, California



Yet another attempt; To paraphase Marshall Mcluhan, both a media and a message.

The media:

"an inclusive computer interface"  (borrowed from an earlier poster)
eyephones, datasuits, rapid 3-D updates and all that.

The message(s) (several, not mutually exclusive):

(1) Super realism: you feel like you are walking through an imaginary building,
	human body, etc. more so than any other computer interface.

(2) Surrealism: imaginary worlds, games, that alter conventional physics,
	strange gravities, time dialations, etc.

(3) Telepresence: remote sensory data collected by a robotic device, e.g. on
	Mars, made more concrete by using VR media.

(4) Others?