Thursday, August 18, 2011

Virtual reality

The term "virtual reality" is coined by computer scientist and philosopher Jaron Lanier in 1980. The phrase is an adaptation of the phrase "Virtual World" originated by Suzanne Langer in the 1950s to describe what one sees as real through a computer-generated world. Lanier established the Virtual Programming Language (VPL) in the early 1980s.
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