What is Virtual Reality?

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Motivation

"We live in a world whose properties we have come to know well through long familiarity. (...) A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

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The ultimate display would, of course, be a room within which a computer can control the existence of matter.

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With appropriate programming such a display could literally be the wonderland into which Alice walked."

- Ivan E. Sutherland, "The Ultimate Display". In Proceeding of the IFIP Congress 1965.


Author: Michael Louka (mlouka@sn.no)
Last Updated: 18 November 1996