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smell-o-vision disagrees :-) It depends on how you define VR ... if you define it as covering every sense, then yes, by definition is encapsulates all other me
by morcheeba 10y ago
smell-o-vision disagrees :-)
It depends on how you define VR ... if you define it as covering every sense, then yes, by definition is encapsulates all other media. But if you define it as how its implemented, then no, because net every sense has been implemented. Smell, temperature, wind, acceleration, weightlessness, full-body touch ... we're a long way from the holodeck.
- gnaritas 10y agoTrue, but those are all enhancements that will come to VR, not themselves new mediums.
- paavokoya 10y agoYou could say that the interactivity/3D of VR was an enhancement to the TV.. and therefore not a new medium
- adrusi 10y agoVR is new and thus not well defined. The name, at least, is inclusive of all technologies that simulate a sensory experience, in a way that "television" never was.
- gnaritas 10y agoNo, because TV was never meant to simulate reality, and simulating reality is what VR is and that naturally includes all the senses.