From: mango@nova.esd.sgi.com (Eric Manghise)
Subject: Re: CULTURE: Movies other than Lawnmower Man...and that too!
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:51:45 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA



In article <1992Sep1.143849.468@unocal.com>, stgprao@st.unocal.COM
(Richard Ottolini) writes:

|> In article <1992Sep1.075654.8344@u.washington.edu>
|> mango@nova.esd.sgi.com (Eric Manghise) writes:
|> 
|> >        I dont think we should overlook one of the best VR films in my
|> >        opinion and that is BRAINSTORM. Direct feed to your brain.
|> >	    Emotions,
|> >        respiration the whole nine yards. It is a interesting concept being
|> >        able to record and reproduce your thoughts as well as others, and
|> >        then being able to share the same sensory experience. A little far
|> >        fetched maybe but so was TV 100 years ago.
|> 
|> I don't consider it VR because there was no interactive control by the
|> user in computer generated peceptions.  Essentially it was just a tape
|> recording.

	I would tend to challenge your definition of VR. I think constraining
	it to interactive control of computer generated perceptions is much
	to narrow. I would tend to broaden the definition to include any
	world in which you are interacting or sharing, whether artifical 
	or not. I might even go so far as to include scuba diving as a
	virtual world. Maybe we should put it out there for discussion and
	find out what peoples perceptions of VR really are?


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[MODERATOR'S NOTE: Here we go again...!  :-) It's a good idea to check
our moorings every so often as our field warps and wends.  Okay, so
what do people think?  Will the next respondent please start a new
topic thread?  Thanks. -- Bob Jacobson]