From: Barbara Lamar (barbaralamar@sanmarcos.net)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 00:38:27 MST
Following up on an earlier discussion ...
> At 07:31 PM 4/1/02 +1000, Dwayne wrote:
> >BBC yesterday credited Jaron Lanier with coining "Virtual Reality"
> >
> >When did you first publish this phrase?
"Damien Broderick" <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> responded:
> I get credited in the 1993 Clute/Nicholls ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION
> with first use, in my novel THE JUDAS MANDALA
I asked Jaron Lanier about the statement in his bio on The Well that says he
coined the term virtual reality. He says he used the term to describe
networked virtual worlds and as far as he knew, he made it up.
<<But who knows? The first use of the phrase was by Antonin Artaud back in
the 1920s, though I didn't know about that at the time, which was
about 1981. The first programming language for vr was called
Mandala, and was from about that time, so it's a double coincidence,
I guess.>>
Artaud used "la realite virtuell" to refer to the theater "in which
characters, objects and
images take on the phantasmagoric force of alchemy's visionary internal
dramas."
Barbara Lamar
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