Virtual reality in scientific visualization
Steve Bryson · Communications of the ACM · 1996
Important in this definition is that virtual reality is computer-generated, three-dimensional, and interactive.We want to create the effect of interacting with things, not with pictures of things.Note that we claim that virtual reality is an effect, not an illusion.In partic-ular, virtual reality does not, a priori, attempt to create an illusion of the real world (although some applications do attempt to do so).Note also that it is the interface, not the content, that characterizes virtual reality [5].The effect of virtual reality is