Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies

Theoretical and pragmatic approach to virtual reality 21

But his vision is directed to the screen, not to his hands, and the object is held without

actually closing the hands. In spite of these alterations, the user unconsciously uses the

same schema.

Piaget concludes that sensorimotor intelligence manages to solve a set of problems

of actions (reaching an object, etc.) by constructing a complex system of assimilation

schemas and to organise the real world as per a set of time-space and causal rules.

Hence our fundamental postulate of virtual reality:

In an interactive virtual environment, a person uses the same approach that he

uses in the real world ...