Constructing such spheres of wonder, however, proved technologically difficult, and by the mid-nineteen-nineties the field of virtual reality had largely collapsed.
In the nineteen-eighties, he helped pioneer the field of virtual reality, and he is often credited with having coined the term.
But how is creativity really treated, beyond the reality distortion field of such misty-eyed ad campaigns?
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Few outsiders know the paroxysms Japan goes through in trying to reconcile its constitutional vow to not field a military with the reality of having one of the world's biggest and best-armed forces.
In the first-ever Apprentice-style program about art, aired over four one-hour episodes, a panel of four judges winnows a field of thousands down to a group of six, who then get put through reality-show-like challenges, including life drawing and creating a work of public art at the British seaside.
Features such as location-based services, near field communications, augmented reality and an array of motion sensors deliver a platform ideal for business process innovation.
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If the force-field models do turn out to be accurate reflections of reality, it will be possible to try some new things.
Rather than treat every candidate equally, the press hounds the frontrunner while stoking drama from the rest of the field like this whole process is one big reality TV show.
He is confusing his own limited observations with the reality of what is going on in the field.
One goal of a system of public education ought to be to make that level playing field a structural reality, distributing access to knowledge and information as widely as possible.
It cited Penn State's "excessive focus on athletics" and showed how under Paterno, a football-mad university created its own insular, reality distortion field, one in which to "avoid the consequences of bad publicity, " facts were brushed away and concealed.
Looking at the whole field of climate-conflict studies, he said, a key was to understand the reality of what might link short- or long-term climatic change to outbreaks of conflict.
This kind of test may even find its way in an augmented-reality device like Google Glass by tracking eye movements as an image moves across the field of view, as a recently uncovered patent suggests.
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In reality, however, many kinds of entities identify themselves as multi-family offices creating an expansive field of disparate contenders.
Even a real hero, Steve Jobs, is famous for his "reality-distortion field"--in two minutes Jobs can have you believing the moon is made of Brie.
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