From: scivw@hitl.washington.edu Subject: DIGEST: Virtual-worlds Info Booth [05.24] Date: October 25, 1997 Organization: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington, Seattle Virtual-worlds Info Booth Digest volume 05, number 24 Contents: INFO: A few questions about VR (Virtual Reality) See the Sci.Virtual-Worlds FAQ, posted monthly http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/readfirst-faq.html, for more details on the organization of this newsgroup. Sci.virtual-worlds WWW page is at: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/ This Digest is archived at the sci.virtual-worlds archive site, URL: ftp://ftp.hitl.washington.edu/pub/scivw/Digests/ Toni Emerson Moderator, sci.virtual-worlds http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/diderot ---------------------------START OF DIGEST------------------------------ From: davide.mago@iol.it (Davide Frey) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: INFO: A few questions about VR (Virtual Reality) Organization: Italia Online Message-Id: <627tqs$e4n@mikasa.iol.it> A few questions about VR (Virtual Reality) When can we say it was born? What was its initial purpose? What is it currently used for? Can it cause addiction? Can it cause damage to the nervous system? Can it provoke unsocial behaviour? ************************************************************ End of Info Booth ************************************************************