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“Realistic all-encompassing visual, auditory, and tactile environments enable people to do virtually anything with anybody, regardless of physical proximity. [By 2019.]”
Inventor, futurist and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Said 1999Deadline Dec 31, 2019The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), Chapter 10 ('2019'), publisher's chapter summary, Penguin Random House
In 2019 VR was a small niche (a few million headsets), haptics were rudimentary, and remote interaction was dominated by flat video calls; no 'all-encompassing' visual-auditory-tactile environments existed.