Tomorrow's Realities at SIGGRAPH'91

The 18th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH '91, featured a juried selection of virtual reality and hypermedia demonstrations entitled Tomorrow's Realities. Conference participants were treated to 26 exhibits that represented the state of the art in virtual world techniques. The SIGGRAPH '91 Conference Proceedings (Computer Graphics, July 1991, ACM Press) contains descriptions of each exhibit. The University ofNorth Carolina (UNC), under the leadership ofDr. Fred Brooks, fielded five applications, stealing the show with the cumulative results of a mature research program. The centerpiece of the UNC exhibit