Written by an author who along with Lou Rossetto, Howard Rheingold, and others, co-founded Wired.com, and later helped launch C/NET, this paper is a foundational document in the history of cyberspace. Yet it is not (to my perception) widely known, hence, its inclusion today. The author wrestles with three major concepts: virtual reality, which is the core of the paper, and its two component concepts, interactivity and vividness of media. I wouldn't, as Vin Crosbie does, accept Steuer's definition of interactivity as "standard" but I would say it is important: "Interactivity is defined as the extent to which users can participate in modifying the form and content of a mediated environment in real time."
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