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...this is only the beginning. Just ask Jaron Lanier, who coined the term virtual reality. Lanier is chief scientist for the "tele-immersion" project, part of the federally subsidized research program known as Internet2, which explores the upshot of massive bandwidth and computing power...
...what's the killer app for tele-immersion? "It's not so much a matter of particular applications," says Lanier. "It will just become part of life. It will be used by teenage girls to gossip, by business people to cut deals, by doctors to consult." And presumably by people who want to do long-distance lunch. Of course, there won't be any point in saying "Pass the squash," but otherwise it will be a normal mealtime conversation. Eating online...
...court-size space to run around in, you can play with your college buddy, wherever he or she may be. (And no more annoying collisions with opponent, walls or ball, since all three will be illusions.) In fact, using standard virtual-reality technology, people have already played tennis remotely, Lanier says. But each looked to the other like a cartoon character--an "avatar." Tele-immersion will let you see the agony of defeat on the face of your vanquished foe. A big advance...
...never really got that time to write that he planned for," said Marius's wife, Lanier Smythe. "As an academic he would have done the academic work no matter what. No one required him to do the creative work. That's what he did because he loved...
...Ailey and now a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, tears up the joint in Percussion 4, while Elizabeth Parkinson, an ex-Joffrey ballerina with legs as long as War and Peace, is volcanically sexy in Sing, Sing, Sing. But the Broadway gypsies are just as satisfying, especially Jane Lanier and Scott Wise, who bring welcome warmth to Fosse without compromising its essential tough mindedness...