From: tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston)
Subject: Re: HUMAN-FACTORS: Immersion Studies
Date: 5 Sep 1996 11:25:28 GMT
Organization: Institute Of Systems Science, NUS



Strange, all this emphasis on how much the user _feels_
part of the virtual world.  "What sort of trip did it give you?"
Even a suggestion of hypnosis.  (You are falling under my spell.
You will buy my VR system...)

I would rather ask,
    How effectively can the user act in the virtual world?

If you can't act on things you find in a world,
you are poorly connected to it.
A tawdry sort of immersion.

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Tim Poston    Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore
            Ask not what your time-zone can do for you:
              ask what you can do for your time-zone.