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- From: js@montaigne.lif.icnet.uk (Jack Shirazi <js@montaigne.lif.icnet.uk>)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: INFO?: Need information on virtual reality
- Message-ID: <1k7c4jINNojp@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:37:57 GMT
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- In article <1k2t1dINNn3a@shelley.u.washington.edu> CAROTH@delphi.com
- writes:
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- >Brian wrote:
- >>[my friend] is looking to write a research paper about virtual reality.
- >>What he's looking for are sources on what it is, how it works, (...)
- >
- >I hate to say it Brian, but tell your friend to go to the local
- >library. EVERY library, as small as it might be has PLENTY of
- >material about VR avaible, or can get it within days through a library
- >loan. I think it would just be a waste of time for anyone answering
- >basically all the FAQ's here... Which reminds me... I might be wrong,
- >but if I should remember it right, someone mentioned VR FAQ files are
- >avaible via anonymous FTP to ftp.washington.edu (someone correct me
- >if I got that address wrong, please).
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- (its ftp.u.washington.edu, directory public/virtual-worlds)
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- And over in alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc, this type of query is exactly
- what I'm trying to address with an introduction to v-w which Charlie
- Lindahl and I have gotten together to do (first parts posted last
- week).
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- We are both beginners and are putting down on paper (alright in ascii
- :-) ) what we're learning. (I'm trawling through archives and he's
- putting together a system).
-
- Hey moderators - why don't you add a one liner saying where the
- archives are each time you add a "[MODERATOR'S NOTE:" ?
-
- Jack js@biu.icnet.uk
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- If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- -- Maslow
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- [MODERATOR'S NOTE: We'll start posting a monthly advisory again.
- -- Bob Jacobson]
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