“Virtual Reality”
INTRODUCTION Today when museums are stunned with the extraordinary entertaining performance of other institution, malls, PVRs and theatres, a new competition is ahead of museums. One of the realities of museums today is the constant need to search for new ways to educate, entertain to excite and above all to give a holistic experience of museum to the audience. In new array of education by various bodies, museums need to be innovative as they always did. In last two decades, computer has invaded museums on a large scale. Museums are now using a new mode of computer facility to educate their audience known as Virtual Reality (VR). The very first use of term “Virtual Reality” is found from 1982 in a science fiction novel “ The Judas Mandala ” by “ Damien Broderick ” where the context of use is somewhat different from that defined here. Later in 1987 “Packer and Jordan”, in "Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality," explore the term and its history from an avant-garde persp