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- From: petry@pythagoras.math.washington.edu (David Petry)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Some musings on expensive journals
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.184606.27323@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 18:46:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Jul23.184606.27323
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- In article <BrtKAq.MH3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> sbrown@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Scott Brown) writes:
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- > There is a joy in wandering through a crowded
- >library stacks with half an hour to kill, selecting a journal
- >at random from a field of interest, and skimming the contents;
- >many's the time I have discovered a useful tidbit in this
- >fashion, or stumbled across some previously unmown to me
- >article which set me on a hunt for more information. Try
- >as I might, I cannot reproduce this effect on-line, ...
-
-
- Researchers in the field of "virtual reality" here at the University
- of Washington are working on solving this very problem. I volunteered
- for one of their experiments which I thought was quite fascinating.
-
- They put a pair of goggles on me and a special glove, and all I had to
- do was point my finger and I'd going flying off through their virtual
- world, or turn my head to see what was around me. The whole system was
- designed to make exploration natural.
-
- The virtual world they had me exploring was called "Virtual Seattle" in
- which I could fly into the Space Needle, or fly into the Kingdome, or
- go play with whales in the Puget Sound (I kid you not!). But they claimed
- one of their goals was to design a virtual library where users could have
- fun exploring the stacks.
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- David Petry
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