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- From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: PHIL: Virtual vs. Artificial Reality
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 14:05:07 CET
- Organization: University of Washington
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- In <9212210016.AA12299@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Dec 20, you wrote:
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- >In article <1992Dec18.163956.7217@u.washington.edu>, sean@cs.tamu.edu
- >(Sean Graves) writes:
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- >> Is there a difference between virtual and artificial reality? I
- >> have been under the impression that they are one and the same,
- >> with 'virtual' being the usual term. However, I have a professor
- >> who insists otherwise. Does anyone have a good reference,
- >> or just opinion on the matter?
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- Beside phylosophical speculations, the "common agreement" is that AR
- is a Virtual Reality where you interact without cumbersome equipment,
- like in Myron Krueger systems. He recently said that both VR and AR
- are following the same ideal: interaction thru your body. They just
- focus, he added, on different aspects. His work focuses more on the
- INTERACTION, while VR focuses more on INTERFACE. Guess what's better
- according to Myron's opinion...
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- Diego
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- [MODERATOR'S NOTE: In Japan, however, virtual reality is referred
- to as artificial reality. -- Bob Jacobson]
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