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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: PHIL: Virtual vs. Artificial Reality
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:39:42 GMT
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- "Virtual Reality" is a semi-commercial term to distinguish VR from its
- flight-simulator roots. The spokesman for this term- Jaron Lanier- was
- more persuasive than competing terms such as artificial reality and
- cyberspace, so the name was adopted. He also trademarked the word
- virtual in his company name and some of his products. Purists may
- distinguish differences between the various terms, but there is no
- common agreement and lots of overlap. I personally prefered the term
- "artificial reality" or "computer-assisted artificial reality" to
- empathsize we are mostly talking about a new technology. I think the
- world "virtual" is less precise in describing the field.
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