"Virtual reality" (was Re: Science and the Internet

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From: Hugh Young
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 00:00

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In <33992362.62325134@news.teleport.com> pdx4d@teleport.com (Kirby Urner) 
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>Kirby
>
>----------------------------------------------------
>Kirby Urner  "ALL realities are 'virtual'" -- KU
>Email: pdx4d@teleport.com
>Web:   http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/

No. There is only one reality and it is real. People have different 
PERCEPTIONS of it, all incomplete and faulty to a greater or lesser extent 
(mainly greater). (If there weren't a real reality, what could we agree 
about?)

("Virtual reality" is an oxymoron in the strict sense. It should just be 
called virtuality. What's worse is the use of "3D" to mean no more than 
"perspective in motion". I suppose when real 3D is up to speed we'll have to 
call it "stereoscop/y/ic". Of course even "real 3D" is not really real 3D in 
the optical sense because it's, um, virtual.)
--
Hugh Young, Pukerua Bay, Nuclear-free Aotearoa / NEW ZEALAND

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From: hugh@young.wn.planet.gen.nz (Hugh Young)
Subject: "Virtual reality" (was Re: Science and the Internet
Date: 1997/06/07
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