Virtual Reality: Advanced Imaging Special Effects Let You Roam in Cyberspace.

Nugent, William R.

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Publication Date: 1991

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Virtual Reality: Advanced Imaging Special Effects Let You Roam in Cyberspace.

Nugent, William R.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v42 n8 p609-17 Sep 1991

Explains virtual reality as a computer-synthesized three-dimensional environment (cyberspace) in which human participants, appropriately interfaced, appear to be enveloped. Cyberspace in science fiction is discussed; contributions of aerospace and military simulation trainers, digital imaging, and motion picture special effects are described; and future possibilities in libraries are suggested. (55 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Aerospace Technology, Computer Simulation, Cybernetics, Films, Futures (of Society), Library Automation, Library Collections, Man Machine Systems, Military Training, Science Fiction, Special Effects

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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