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Essay Archive - What is Virtual Reality
What is Virtual Reality
The term Virtual Reality (VR) is used by many different people with many
meanings. There are some people to whom VR is a specific collection of
technologies, that is a Head Mounted Display, Glove Input Device and Audio.
Some other people stretch the term to include conventional books, movies or
pure fantasy and imagination. The NSF taxonomy mentioned in the
introduction can cover these as well. However, my personal preference, and
for purposes of this paper, we restrict VR to computer mediated systems.
The best definition of Virtual Reality I have seen to date comes from the
book "The Silicon Mirage" (see section on VR....
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