From: bluefire@well.com (Bob Jacobson)
Subject: Re: MISC: VR thoughts
Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:17:39 GMT
Message-ID: <69ram3$6ni$1@was.hooked.net>
Organization: The Well, San Francisco, CA


Jerry Isdale's "goodbye to VR" and Linda Jacobson's rebuttal both
contain truths.  There is a reluctance in the commercial field to
use headsets.  We've known that since 1994.  On the other hand,
the "VR" field is very much alive industrially (though often under 
other names, incorporated in other practices -- as should be the
case for a maturing technology).  Recent issues of PRESENCE have
emphasized the human-factors, cognitive, and aesthetic aspects of
virtual worlds, which could only happen if the underlying hardware
was sound enough to support this higher-order work...which it is.

I think you'll be seeing more interest in what used to be called
virtual reality in the near future.  In fact, I know you will,
because I'm working on a major project -- industrial, not
technological -- to make it so.  

Regards to all.

Bob Jacobson
SRI Consulting
Menlo Park, CA

bluefire@well.com (Bob Jacobson)