Meeting People Virtually: Experiments in Shared Virtual Environments

摘要: The BBC TV series Dr Who popularized the race of beings known as "Daleks" [l]. A Dalek is a creature that completely encased in metallic shell, through which it can slide over ground only certain types flat, smooth and electrically conducting surfaces. It has three limbs, one used an eye-piece delivering relatively small field view, another weapon, third acts end-effector for manipulation objects. There no direct evidence about Daleks’ auditory capabilities. However, this unlikely to be good, since Daleks have habit repeating most things they say several times. tend shout rather than talk, indication poor capability lossy information channel. This evolutionary development was result warinduced nuclear holocaust, thousands years past.