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"Its purpose will be general communication with other people, not so much getting sorts of work done . . . " |
SImILe? |
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"Virtual Reality did not spring, like Athena from the
forehead of Zeus, full-blown from the mind of William Gibson."
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and
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MeTA
phOr? |
"unthinkable without the print culture
it claims to transcend"
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"The thing that is remarkably beautiful
about Virtual Reality is that you can make up reality in Virtual
Reality and share it with other people. It's like having a collaborative
lucid dream. It's like having shared hallucinations, except
that you can compose them like works of art; you can compose
the external world in any way at all as an act of communication."
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Is Virtual Reality
Virtual, or Is It Manifest? |
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"the part of each of us that longs to leap out of our everyday life into the pages of a favorite book" |
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"theexten
deduse ofVi rtual Rea lityislikely toalte rourse nseo f rea lity" |
