From: Bob Jacobson (cyberoid@hitl.washington.edu)
Subject: Re: Virtual Chat via Internet? When?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1992 00:32:43 GMT
Organization: HIT Lab, Seattle WA.



In article <1992Jan27.002336.3287@milton.u.washington.edu> stgprao@xing.un
unocal.com (Richard Ottolini) writes:

>Virtual reality + wide area networks => cyberspace.
>
>There are several scifi novels on the topic.
>
>There is also a newsgroup called alt.cyberspace.

I think the more commonly used words for the combination of virtual
interfaces and high-speed communications are "telepresence" or
"presence" (which can also mean, confusingly, real-time stereo-
scopy to another place), and "televirtuality."

(Almost set up one of these things for the Spanish telephone company,
on the occasion of Expo 92 and the Olympics.  The operable word is
"almost."  Someday the story will be told....)

Cyberspace has come to mean something so broad and undefined --
the entire universe of human information, perhaps datafied -- that
it is no longer moored to any one experience or process.

How is alt.cyberspace progressing, by the way?

Bob Jacobson
Moderator