1.2.7 Cyberspace on Oct. 25.

Have you happened to hear an 'air guitar' or a 'telematic'? The former means singers' motions or actions which they pretend to play a guitar when they sing. In fact, there is a connection between a real guitar and the air one: synchronization. Although they're not playing the real guitar, they look like playing because they synchronize what the guitarists are doing. Moreover, the telematic refers a moving to somewhere at once when you want to go. Actually we believe it's not real; we just see that in SF movies. Today, however, we can move from a website to another one just by clicking a mouse button. It doesn't mean physically, but conceptually it makes sense.

We can categorize VR into an immersive VR and on-line network. The immersive VR is what we generally think as VR: we can sense physically, it's a site-specific enclosure, and it's based on our experiences. As we've seen in some movies, we can experience another world which is not existing, by using 3d glasses, gloves, ETC. On the other hand, the on-line network means a new world which is created by connections between people. On-line messengers are the typical examples of the on-line network. Some people say the on-line world is as same as the real world. It's possible, but there're some differences: we meet people in different ways.

The fundamental thing is that we can be satisfied with the real world because we're not the god, so sometimes we have to acknowledge we're not that strong or not enough to be what we want to be. This is why we pursue the virtual world.