History
Though the concept was first written about by Weiser using the term "embodied virtuality", Manuel Castells was actually one of the first scholars to use the term "real virtuality" within his trilogy entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture in 1996. It could be said that the concept first described by Weiser has already been legitimized with the increasing creation of UbiComp, or Ubiquitous computing devices like the cell phone, iPod, GPS, and iPad. Manuel Castells successfully predicted the ubiquity of real virtuality devices that are inter-connected and capable of communicating through a network
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