Today, it often considers the effect that people experience when they interact with a computer-mediated or computer-generated environment.
Of course, computer-generated environments in which users can interact through digital alter egos have been around for years.
But he added that there are few things in life as intimate as a life-or-death struggle, even if it is in a computer-generated environment.
Programmers are delivering high-immersion, interactive games in which players show up as themselves inside computer-generated environments.
Significantly, radiosity rendering provided a true simulation of bounce-light in a computer-generated environment.
In a computer-generated environment, he projected images on a virtual sphere with a highly reflective surface.
For example, video triggers at key points in the virtual landscape remind a participant that the computer-generated environment is grounded in a real news story.
The computer-generated environment also can act as a replica of an actual space from the physical world, a recreation but with verité intent.
Radiosity rendering allowed for the first true simulation of bounce-light in a computer-generated environment.
Users wore special glasses to see computer-generated, threedimensional environments which allowed them to feel as though they were literally moving through another world.