Virtual Reality Technologies: Elements for a Vision Geography
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2002.17.3149Keywords:
Cyberspace, Virtual Reality, New TechnologiesAbstract
In this article Ken Hills comments upon cyberspace, the new communication development which inaugurates the era of artificial (or virtual) reality, taking into account three different premises.
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