From: portal!cup.portal.com!lordSnooty@uunet.UU.NET
Subject: TECH: VR Operating systems and languages
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 20:14:13 PDT


Richard Ottolini writes: 
: Why think in terms of old media- paper & 2-D?  Jaron Lanier mentioned
: a interesting idea in a recent Computer Graphics World- A room full of
: shelves with fishbowls containing Worlds.  You'd jump into a world of
: interest.

Boxes would also be the 3D equivalent of a window. Open the box, or room,
and walk inside. Nesting boxes/ rooms would be intuitively easy to deal
with also, given that you're "walking through" (virtual punctuation).
The resultant environment of rooms within rooms within rooms would be
akin to inhabiting a vast multiscale mansion.

Except, of course, that it is usually frowned upon in vast mansions to
swoop around at great speed several metres above the floor.
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