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"[Science fiction] is the only kind of writing that allows you to look at the world we live in and change one piece at a time."
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Science fiction has presented many kinds of virtual reality technovelgy over the years; here is a very early (and perhaps the first) description of a completely immersive virtual environment.
In reading this, I'm strongly reminded of a real-world technology: the Heliodisplay, a device that projects an image on what appears to be a fine mist. I saw this at the Wired magazine NextFest exhibition in Chicago, and it really works. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'...she dropped her hands from the wheel, took the robot snake from his box.'
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'Its lines wavered, flowed, and then painfully reformed.'
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