Instead, they turn themselves into hip theoreticians of simulated reality, an idea no more interesting than the gaga psychedelic fantasies of the sixties era.

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Then, on the following day, the doctors were asked to perform a series of simulated operations via a virtual reality program used to train doctors in laparoscopic surgery, a form of minimally invasive surgery performed with tiny incisions and a fiber-optic camera.

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In the nineteen-eighties, Lanier came to believe that virtual reality the creation of computer-simulated environments in which real people can interact would precipitate an extraordinary revolution in art and communication.

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No virtual-reality helmet is required, as it might be if conventional surgery were being simulated.

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