Virtual Reality: Tomorrow's Information System, or Just Another Pretty Interface?.

Newby, Gregory B.

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ERIC Number: EJ473026

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1993

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Virtual Reality: Tomorrow's Information System, or Just Another Pretty Interface?

Newby, Gregory B.

Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, v30 p199-203 1993

Discussion of virtual reality (VR) focuses on the promise that VR offers for information systems by describing current systems which use VR and by projecting possible developments for the future. Types of information problems which could be helped by VR are considered, as well as those that could not be helped. (Contains 13 references.) (LRW)

Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Futures (of Society), Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Information Systems, Man Machine Systems, Problems

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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