From: Felix Sebastian Ortony Subject: How do we advance the state of the art? Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 13:40:58 -0500 I'm relatively new to the Internet Virtual Reality scene, but already it seems that there's quite a bit of interest in the field, both from a technical and philosophical perspective, that remains completely untapped. This hidden reservoir of bright-eyed undergraduates and professional programmers has quite a bit going for it -- willingness, intelligence, vocality, etcetera. But there don't seem to be very many magazines, newsletters, positions, assistantships, or other forums available for these people to really dive headfirst into what may prove to be an incredible field. As a result, we trail over the surface like waterspiders. Have you, or anyone else, given any thought to organizing interested parties, incorporating them, challenging universities to provide for them, or rallying them together into the public eye? If so, I'd like more information, both as a writer whose interests lie in delivering information to the public and as a computer scientist/philosopher who would like to delve deeper into virtual reality research. Felix Ortony _____________________________________________________________________________ Felix Sebastian Ortony fortony@cs.uiuc.edu fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --