From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: VR is passe?
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 14:35:45 GMT
Organization: Unocal Corporation



In article <1uhe63INNi5v@news.u.washington.edu> bobp@hal.com (Bob
Pendleton) writes:

>At the 3cyberconf I heard Bob Jacobson say that workstation vendors
>have decided that VR is passe. That they aren't interested in building
>products that support VR. I hope that's a valid interpretation of what
>he said.

VR will always have its niche uses in arcades, training simulators,
architecture presentations, occupational therapy, etc.  The question
is whether it will ever become a mass industry, i.e.  home or general
business.  Currently that may not be optimistic.  Lots of new
human-computer-interfaces are over-hyped.  Take for example the
pen-computers, that have their niche uses, but have not caught on in
mass use yet.