20/20 VR
Virtual reality - explained by Negroponte as "a sense of "being there" by giving at least the eye what it would have received if it were there and more important, to have the image change instantly as you change your point of view."
It is discussed in this chapter how virtual reality, referred to as VR, has not been improved to perfection. One drawback would be the jaggies. Another is that it is not fast enough. Otherwise known as an image lag.
Negroponte then moves on to talking about teleconferencing. Explaining that they had to come up with a way to make people seem as though they were all in one place when in fact they are all in different locations. This was done by making plastic heads.
He then goes on and talks about holography, explaining that a hologram is a " collection of all possible views of a scene into a single plane of light modulating patterns. When light is later passed through or reflected from this plane, the scene is optically reconstructed in space."
