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In 1963, the modern concept of virtual reality was born. From then it took more than twenty years for us to give this concept a name and, since then, we continue to have trouble agreeing upon the meaning of (virtual reality)VR and how exactly the term should be defined.

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Garner, T.A. (2018). Introduction. In: Echoes of Other Worlds: Sound in Virtual Reality. Palgrave Studies in Sound. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65708-0_1

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