Document ID: 19920008415 N (92N17634) File Series: NASA Technical Reports
Report Number: AD-A242028
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Authors:
Robinett, Warren (North Carolina Univ.)
Published: Jan 01, 1991
Corporate Source:
North Carolina Univ. (Chapel Hill, NC, United States)
Pages: 7
Contract Number: N00014-86-K-0680
NASA Subject Category: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Abstract:
The true potential of this new field comes from the ability of a head mounted
display to induce a synthetic experience in its wearer. The ability to artificially
create and design experience enables possibilities and powers that were formerly
impossible. If experience can be captured and transmitted, then you can 'travel'
instantaneously to a distant location and see the trees, feel the wind, hear the
birds, and smell the flowers. If electronic instruments can sense things that you
cannot perceive, such as the inside of opaque objects, then you can be shown images
of these invisible things. There are, however, things which are invisible to all of
your senses. Examples of these imperceptible phenomena are X-rays, infrared
radiation, radio waves, magnetic fields, radioactivity, ultrasound, electricity, the
inside of opaque objects, microscopic objects, and events occurring too fast to see.
Even though you cannot directly perceive these things, you can indirectly measure and
observe them with various instruments and electronic sensors.
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