VR
       Virtual Reality

	

	VR
       Virtual Route (SNA, PSDN)

	

	VR
       Virtuelle Realitaet

	

	VR
 //, n.

    On-line abbrev for virtual reality, as opposed to RL.

	

	virtual reality
VR

   (VR)

   1.  Computer simulations that use 3D graphics and
   devices such as the data glove to allow the user to interact
   with the simulation.

   2.  A form of network interaction incorporating aspects
   of role-playing games, interactive theater, improvisational
   comedy, and "true confessions" magazines.  In a virtual
   reality forum (such as Usenet's news:alt.callahans
   newsgroup or the MUD experiments on Internet and
   elsewhere), interaction between the participants is written
   like a shared novel complete with scenery, "foreground
   characters" that may be personae utterly unlike the people who
   write them, and common "background characters" manipulable by
   all parties.  The one iron law is that you may not write
   irreversible changes to a character without the consent of the
   person who "owns" it, otherwise, anything goes.

   See bamf, cyberspace.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-01-30)