Virtual reality takes our lives into the technology. One enters this artificial world by putting on special clothing wired to a computer. Gloves and suits with sensors and transmitters send and receive data. The glove resembles Mattel's power glove for its Nintendo games. Goggles include tiny video screens.
Headsets provide three-dimensional stereo sound.
Helmets could include both audio and video output. The computer generates sounds and images either of the real world or of an imaginary one that appear to the viewer in three dimensions. Novels, plays, and films attempt to create an artificial experience. Besides providing opportunities for experiencing alternative lifestyles or for exploring a variety of situations, whether real or imaginary, the concept could give rise to a new form of literature such as interactive novels. This will require writers to compose several parallel plots that intertwine.