Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place seems amiable enough -- cozily Edwardian, beckoning, a lullaby for the senses. Period photos of adventurers, early editions of Jules Verne and Dorian Gray, a mahogany bar where a fellow serves "smart drinks," heavy on the ginkgo. This is the Explorer's Lounge, the front room of a Virtual World shop in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek. But behind the paneled walls, some pioneering menace is afoot. Five kill-crazy nerdlingers will soon engage in mortal combat, 21st century style, against a tenderfoot with a cunning computer handle: Cyber Rick...
...game is BattleTech, a 10-minute interactive video extravaganza that plunks you down on a barren, monolith-strewn spacescape to neutralize a platoon of stealthy robots: your opponents. The process is called virtual reality. And Virtual World Entertainment, which besides the Walnut Creek showroom has retail outlets in Chicago, Tokyo and Yokohama (with a San Diego branch due in November), is just part of this burgeoning blend of art, science and razzle-dazz...
...training visualize objects in graphic three dimensions and on a 360 degrees field. Recent advances in reducing both the size and the cost of hardware and software are bringing VR out of the flight simulators and putting it within reach of architects, designers, surgeons and other professionals. "Properly done, virtual reality has an opportunity to change the world," says David Bonini, CEO of Division Inc., whose VR systems help drug researchers assemble "virtual" molecules. "This is only the beginning...
...Virtual-reality hype is gradually giving way to virtual-reality reality. "Finally," says Ben Delaney, publisher of CyberEdge Journal, "the technology has met up with the demand. I think we're going to see VR all over the place. It's a better mousetrap, and it's a better way to work with computers." John Latta, president of 4th Wave, a market research firm, predicts that the nonmilitary VR industry, already a $110 million business, will be nearly five times as large...
Walton and freshman defender Daphne Clark shut down the Tiger offense, including rookie scoring sensation Amy McFarlane who now appears to be a virtual lock for this season's rookie of the year...