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Re: What is VR going to be called by the General Public.
Are Flagan 2005-Jan-22 11:00:00
On Jan 22, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Jook Leung wrote:
> I would say "interactive 360 degree panoramas".
This is an interesting thread. The question, it seems, has translated
into how many non-hyphenated adjectives are needed to form a
descriptive noun of things that go spin on a screen. According to fresh
marketing strategy, however, keywords are soooo out and branding is in,
which leaves the field wide open to any letter combination, or even
known word, with the right associations. If a child can say it, our
Google has ended. I have personally come to peace with "VR Panoramas"
to cover the screen-based display technology, the actual stitched image
and thus, implicitly, more standard uses and views of panoramic
imagery. To complain that it's not truly and really virtual reality is
sort of mute when today's CAVEs are exactly like Plato's original. This
will forever be the case, unless we can cancel the Truman Show and get
Jim Carrey to calm down. Po-mo culture is ripe with this conundrum and
although VR belongs to a bygone era that had William Gibson wined and
dined on what he called the headset-and-glove paradigm, it still, in my
view, has some currency left in terms of explaining algorithmic
phenomena to a world generally set on static perspective.