Real Virtuality

Real Virtuality

"'Real Virtuality"' was a concept that Mark Weiser used to contrast his idea of ubiquitous computing with the then popular notion that we would all spend a lot of time in virtual reality environments. He conceives of the concept in his influential 1991 article "The Computer for the 21st century", and explains that the "virtuality" of computers, in other words, the ability to compute, view, and alter data with a computer, will exist within our physical world, outside of an electronic shell.