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What it is NOT

When 'Virtual Reality' is used in a confusing and misleading manner...

Usual image :

What the media usually show : a person with a visiocasque and a dataglove...


From : The Virtual Reality Homebrewer's Handbook by Robin Hollands


Photo by W. Fisher / S. Fisher
VIEW (Virtual Interface Environmental Workstation)
Courtesy of Scott Fisher, NASA-Ames Research Center

The Lawnmower Man

Synopsis:
A slow-witted teenager develops a super intellect when he becomes a guinea pig for a scientist experimenting with virtual reality.

1992, 105 Minutes, Directed by: Brett Leonard

JOHNNY MNEMONIC


* * STARRING: Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Takeshi, Ice-T, Dina Meyer, Udo Kier, Denis Akiyama, Henry Rollins, Tracy Tweed, Don Francks

1995, 98 Minutes, Directed by: Robert Longo

 

The book :

Neuromancer

By the Cyberpunk godfather William Gibson

It could be, but it is not "only that", nor "always that"


Head-Mounted Display (HMD)

 

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