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Re:HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Sales by morcheeba on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @07:28PM (#12046555)
smell-o-vision disagrees :-)

It depends on how you define VR ... if you define it as covering every sense, then yes, by definition is encapsulates all other media. But if you define it as how its implemented, then no, because net every sense has been implemented. Smell, temperature, wind, acceleration, weightlessness, full-body touch ... we're a long way from the holodeck.

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Re:HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Sales by gnaritas on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @07:42PM (#12046614)
True, but those are all enhancements that will come to VR, not themselves new mediums.
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Re:HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Sales by paavokoya on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @09:04PM (#12046896)
You could say that the interactivity/3D of VR was an enhancement to the TV.. and therefore not a new medium
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Re:HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Sales by adrusi on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @09:20PM (#12046942)
VR is new and thus not well defined. The name, at least, is inclusive of all technologies that simulate a sensory experience, in a way that "television" never was.
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Re:HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Sales by gnaritas on Thursday July 07, 2016 @05:05PM (#12052068)
No, because TV was never meant to simulate reality, and simulating reality is what VR is and that naturally includes all the senses.
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