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Article: Is `VR.5' Close to Virtual Reality?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 31, 1995
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LOS ANGELES TIMES At a new-media conference at the Los Angeles
Convention Center last week, a session on the emerging field of
virtual reality veered off course when one of the panelists mentioned
that psychiatrists are exploring virtual reality to treat subjects.
"I have a question," interjected another panelist, Gregory
Panos, president of Sophistech Research in Beverly Hills and
publisher of the "Virtual Reality Sourcebook." "Are any of these
psychiatrists doing anything to deal with the brain damage caused by
people in the entertainment industry who are putting together these
virtual-reality movies and TV shows that we're forced to consume?"
Specifically, Panos was referring to ...