GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-95-22
Title:
Integrating Perceptual and Symbolic Information in VR
Authors:
Jay Bolter
Larry F. Hodges
Thomas Meyer
Alison Nichols
Abstract:
Inside or outside the lab, most current VR aims at reproducing perceptual
experience. The goal is to give the user the sensation that he or she is
walking along a hallway in a building, flying over a city, or riding in a
vehicle. However, if virtual reality is ever going to "break out" into
general purpose computing, then it has to provide more than a perceptual
experience. It has to reproduce the capabilities of current computers to
manipulate symbols as well. Symbol manipulation is an essential part of
what computers do in applications ranging from numerical analysis to
database management to word processing and communication.
Keywords:
Virtual environments, virtual reality, user interface, computer graphics,
usability
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