virtual Friday n.
(also `logical Friday') The last day before an extended
weekend, if that day is not a `real' Friday. For example, the
U.S. holiday Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The next day
is often also a holiday or taken as an extra day off, in which
case Wednesday of that week is a virtual Friday (and Thursday is
a virtual Saturday, as is Friday). There are also `virtual
Mondays' that are actually Tuesdays, after the three-day weekends
associated with many national holidays in the U.S.
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virtual reality n.
1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such
as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the
simulation. See cyberspace. 2. A
form of network interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing
games, interactive theater, improvisational comedy, and `true
confessions' magazines. In a virtual reality forum (such as
Usenet's _alt.callahans_ newsgroup or the MUD experiments on Internet), interaction between
the participants is written like a shared novel complete with
scenery, `foreground characters' that may be personae utterly
unlike the people who write them, and common `background
characters' manipulable by all parties. The one iron law is that
you may not write irreversible changes to a character without the
consent of the person who `owns' it. Otherwise anything goes. See
bamf, cyberspace, teledildonics.