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Re: What is VR going to be called by the General Public.
Jook Leung 2005-Jan-21 23:35:00
Hello Group,
Roger has explained quite well. Don't bother to try to use the term
VR except among ourselves.
I would say "interactive 360 degree panoramas". And if they still
look puzzled I would mutter "um, like a virtual tour". <:-|
Jook
> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:24:20 -0800
> From: Roger Howard <#removed#>
>Subject: Re: What is VR going to be called by the General Public.
>
>
>On Jan 21, 2005, at 1:05 PM, Thomas Mottl wrote:
>
>>
>> VR is the acronym of a German Bank based on companionship.
>> There is vr-web.de
>> vr-networld.de
>> etc.
>> Anyway I will still say QTVR and VR and virtual reality when I explain
>> someone panoramas.
>> I see absolutely no need to use greek for decribing it and make the
>> confusion bigger. The more words are in use to describe the same thing,
>> the less people will know about. This will do no favour to QTVR.
>> Like the Babylonian language chaos in the Bible.
>
>I don't think anyone is suggesting to make things more complicated and
>obfuscated; actually, quite the opposite: in my experience, and this
>has been discussed much, the term "VR" is either completely alien to a
>general audience, or seen as a mis-use of the term by more technical
>folks. What this discussion is getting at is a need for a simple,
>brandable, and evocative/descriptive term for what we all do. The only
>reason VR is even used is Apple's marketing-driven choice of the name
>QuicktimeVR so many years back, and the subsequent shortening of the
>term into VR. It's not only a misuse of the acronym, but it's
>meaningless to most people outside our community (in other words,
>meaningless to the folks who might purchase your services).
>
>Likewise, no one suggested the use of the names IQTVRA/IVRPA in a broad
>way (a previous poster was criticizing those names); that's a trade
>group, not an acronym we'd expect to cross the lips of the general
>public, just like the public has never heard of ASMP or most other such
>groups.
>
>Anyhow, I don't think it's going to be solved here (or should be), but
>it's good it's on people's minds. I typically describe what I shoot as
>a panorama, and then upon further conversation explain that it is
>interactive and immersive (though usually not in those terms). I'm glad
>this project is WWPano and not WWVR.
>
>-R
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Jook Leung
360VR Studio
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