This week, in The Virtual Whirl, we're asking "Why virtual environments?" - Not why are they anything specifically, but just why.
Depending on your definition of virtual environments, people have been building them and using them for decades now, since before the Web; since before the advent of the personal computer. To make a virtual space from a real space, or to fabricate an entirely original virtual space from whole cloth - what's driving that and where is that going?
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