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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, 30 Dec 92 20:32:34 CET
- Organization: University of Washington
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- In <9212290945.AA11450@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Dec 29, you wrote:
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- > [MODERATOR'S NOTE: In Japan, however, virtual reality is referred
- > to as artificial reality. -- Bob Jacobson]
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- And in England they drive on the right! Just joking, of course. Also
- here at my University it is preferred Artificial Reality. I just
- hoped that the taxonomy introduced last year during the SIGGRAPH
- Tomorrow Realities (VR, AR or Third Person, and Desktop-Vehicle) had
- been more widely accepted...
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- I recall an old conference (1988) on "Electronic Communication":
- during the Q&A session a man stood up, saying that he didn't like the
- term "hypertext" and proposing a brain-storming session to come up
- with another name... of course everybody laughed...
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- I think that a common agreement should be reached one day or another
- or we'll always see the abstract of the conference begin with "VR is
- ..." Ok... we know. Nobody would start a SIGGRAPH paper with
- "Computer Graphics is ..."
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- 1 cent.
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- Diego
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- [MODERATOR'S NOTE: In Japan, they drive on the left, too, just like
- in England (and probably at Diego's university). -- Bob Jacobson]
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