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wex@sitting.pws.bull.com (Alan Wexelblat) writes:

>rabin@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Rabin Ezra) writes:
>   I also believe that it will be quite some time before people
>   wear the current brand of VR tech for any more than
>   experimental or games purposes... 

>I'm still dubious.  Look around you during your working day: how much of
>what you do relies on face-to-face interaction?  How willing would you be to
>take off and put on glasses every time you needed to talk to someone?

>...VR will eventually be the ultimate medium for cooperative
>work, but as long as I have to put physical equipment between myself and my
>partners I may be hindering my task rather than helping it.

I think that wearable terminals will be a natural extension of multimedia
workstations.  I would only be a matter of being able to recreate the facial
expressions and body movements of the users.  This is easy on a multimedia
workstation, much more difficult in VR.  But, that's what makes it interesting.

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