From: tipjrb@cupid.cc.bellcore.com (berard,john) Subject: INFO?: SURVEY on Virtual Reality Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 08:02:46 GMT Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ This questionaire comes form a graduate student doing research on the social implications of VR technology. If you'd like, you can post a response here, to me, or you can fax to: ATTN: Dinky Newman (201)647-3518 1. Which industry do you think will first integrate VR into regular day to day public use? Medical Entertainment Education General Business other (please name) 2. To you personally, which industry has the most exciting potential application for VR? (same choices as question 1) 3. Do you as a copmuter software developer/user have concerns regarding the social impact that VR will have on the public? (yes/no) 4. Do you fell that VR will create an "information gap" between the various social and economic classes? (yes/no) 5. Do corporations and developers have a social responsiblility in bringing Vr to the public domain? (yes/no) 6. Who should be responsible for monitoring the accuracy of information presented in a VR application? Government audience or user creator/author industry other (please name) 7. Do you feel that experiencing VR will enhance or detract from the learning process of small children? (enhance/detract) 8. Of the above questions, please choose one and elaborate. Thanks for your time and input! John Berard tipjrb@cc.bellcore.com for Dinky Newman Grad Student Multi-Media Studies