From: lance@csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
Subject: Re: sci.virtual-worlds
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 91 14:25 PDT



In sci.virtual-worlds you write:

>In article <1991Aug25.184409.3792@milton.u.washington.edu> fortony@herodotus.
>cs.uiuc.edu (Felix Sebastian Ortony) writes:

>>In common bondage terminology, this sort of escape mechanism is called a
>>'safeword'.  That's one reason why virtual reality will never be exactly
>>like reality -- it'll have to have externalized controls to return the
>>explorer to reality when she issues the safeword signal.  I wonder what
>>sort of mechanism that would be?

>How about:

> Click your red shoes together and say "there's no place like home?" ;-{)

At a local hi-tech junk shop they have large bright red key-caps 
with PANIC stencilled on them.  This will be part of my desktop
VR window system rig (my 5D language has exception-handling for 
just this purpose).

Lance