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Pimentel, Ken and Kevin Teixeira. Virtual Reality: Through the New Looking Glass. New York: Intel/Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, 1993. 301pp.
The authors state in their introduction that this book is designed to serve as a tour guide to virtual reality (VR), and they compare it to a "guidebook to Bali, a gateway to adventure. It's an apt comparison. Bali, my "home away from home," always seems like an alternate reality.
Bali is a place that stimulates all your senses; a place where there is no word for "artist," because everyone is assumed to be one. It is a place where each day offers a surprising new adventure in which to participate. The same could be said of virtual reality.
Ken Pimentel, product manager for Sense8, a virtual reality software company, and Kevin Teixeira, virtual reality project manager at Intel, have written an excellent and well-illustrated guide to...