State-of-the-art geotechnical solutions emerge from immersive environments

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Immersive Environments are a new type of human-computer interface.

In this computer generated `virtual' or `synthetic' world humans are able to:

• extend their memory to encompass computer storage,
• jump between spatial locations,
• step through geologic processes across time,
• and evaluate the same spatial frameword from different states,
  (switching from geology to geophysics to engineering to other geotechnical representations).

Immersive Environments are a new type of media.

Because virtual visualization technologies are immature,
it will be most cost effective to start by
translating traditional tools to immersive environments of
those applications which have a significant economic impact.

Although the new media will eventually include all existing E&P software tools,
the first geotechnical solutions to emerge will be state-of-the-art.

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