VR [Virtual Reality] is the natural asymtote of the progression of graphics and multimedia formats. I expect the objects on the Web which are targeted at people to evolve toward VR.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 e-mail exchange with Tim Berners-Lee, reporter Kris Herbst asks questions for a story she is preparing to run in the August issue of Internet World. Berners-Lee saved the communication and put it up on the W3.org Web site, in its “history” section. Berners-Lee makes the following comment when asked a question regarding the integration of real-time and virtual reality technologies on the Web:”VR [Virtual Reality] is the natural asymtote of the progression of graphics and multimedia formats. I expect the objects on the Web which are targeted at people to evolve toward VR. There will be other objects (such as large-data arrays) which are really only useful for a program.”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Virtual Reality
Name of publication: Internet World
Title, headline, chapter name: Interview with Berners-Lee
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.w3.org/History/1994/WWW/Journals/InternetWorld/Interview.txt
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