:virtual reality: n. 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics
and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact
with the simulation. See {cyberspace}. 2. A form of network
interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing games,
interactive theater, improvisational comedy, and `true confessions'
magazines. In a virtual reality forum (such as USENET's
alt.callahans newsgroup or the {MUD} experiments on Internet),
interaction between the participants is written like a shared novel
complete with scenery, `foreground characters' that may be
personae utterly unlike the people who write them, and common
`background characters' manipulable by all parties. The one
iron law is that you may not write irreversible changes to a
character without the consent of the person who `owns' it.
Otherwise anything goes. See {bamf}, {cyberspace}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact
with the simulation. See {cyberspace}. 2. A form of network
interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing games,
interactive theater, improvisational comedy, and `true confessions'
magazines. In a virtual reality forum (such as USENET's
alt.callahans newsgroup or the {MUD} experiments on Internet),
interaction between the participants is written like a shared novel
complete with scenery, `foreground characters' that may be
personae utterly unlike the people who write them, and common
`background characters' manipulable by all parties. The one
iron law is that you may not write irreversible changes to a
character without the consent of the person who `owns' it.
Otherwise anything goes. See {bamf}, {cyberspace}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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- virtual reality n.
1. Computer simulations that use 3-D
graphics and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to
interact with the simulation.
See cyberspace. 2. A form of network interaction... - MUD /muhd/ n.
[acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt.
Multi-User Dimension] 1. A class of virtual reality... - cyberspace /si:'br-spays`/ n.
1. Notional
`information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with
brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks';
a characteristic prop of cyberpunk SF. Serious... - cyberspace: /si:'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space'
loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer
interfaces called `cyberspace decks';
a characteristic prop of {cyberpunk} SF. At the... - bamf: /bamf/ 1. [from old X-Men comics] interj. Notional sound
made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's
vicinity.
Often used in {virtual reality} (esp. {MUD}) electronic... - bamf /bamf/
1. [from X-Men comics; originally "bampf"]
interj.
Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting... - teledildonics: /tel`*-dil-do'-niks/ n. Sex in a computer
simulated virtual reality,
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[in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of
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Among people working on virtual reality and cyberspace... - Matrix: [FidoNet] n. 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call
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