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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>virtual reality</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="virtual-Friday.html" title="virtual Friday"/><link rel="next" href="virtual-shredder.html" title="virtual shredder"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">virtual reality</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virtual-Friday.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virtual-shredder.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="virtual-reality"/><dt xmlns="" id="virtual-reality"><b>virtual reality</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as
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the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation. See
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<a href="../C/cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of
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role-playing games, interactive theater, improvisational comedy, and
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‘true confessions’ magazines. In a virtual reality forum (such
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as Usenet's <tt class="systemitem">alt.callahans</tt>
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newsgroup or the <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a> experiments on Internet),
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interaction between the participants is written like a shared novel
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complete with scenery, <span class="firstterm">foreground
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characters</span> that may be personae utterly unlike the people who
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write them, and common <span class="firstterm">background
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characters</span> manipulable by all parties. The one iron law is that
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you may not write irreversible changes to a character without the consent
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of the person who ‘owns’ it. Otherwise anything goes. See
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<a href="../B/bamf.html"><i class="glossterm">bamf</i></a>, <a href="../C/cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a>,
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<a href="../T/teledildonics.html"><i class="glossterm">teledildonics</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="virtual-Friday.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="virtual-shredder.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">virtual Friday </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> virtual shredder</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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