Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and HyperrealityBenjamin Woolley, 1993 - 274 pagina's In Virtual Worlds, Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality. He looks at the dramatic intellectual and cultural upheavals that gave birth to it, the hype that surrounds it, the people who have promoted it, and the dramatic implications of its development. Virtual reality is not simply a technology, it is a way of thinking created and promoted by a group of technologists and thinkers that sees itself as creating our future. Virtual Worlds reveals the politics and culture of these virtual realists, and examines whether they are creating reality, or losing their grasp of it. 12 photographs. |
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... ENIAC, which promised to calculate each trajectory in 30 seconds.8 As the designers of ENIAC pointed out, however, their machine could do more than compile ballistic tables. 'There is no essential or fundamental restriction imposed by ...
... ENIAC, which promised to calculate each trajectory in 30 seconds.8 As the designers of ENIAC pointed out, however, their machine could do more than compile ballistic tables. 'There is no essential or fundamental restriction imposed by ...
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... ENIAC had demonstrated by calculating a 60-second trajectory in less than 60 seconds. In 1944, around the same time as the ENIAC was being built, a group under Jay W. Forrester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's ...
... ENIAC had demonstrated by calculating a 60-second trajectory in less than 60 seconds. In 1944, around the same time as the ENIAC was being built, a group under Jay W. Forrester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's ...
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... ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania were also using US Navy funding to develop a real-time simulation system, the Universal Digital Operational Flight Trainer, UDOFT. Unlike Whirlwind, this was to reach its original aim in 1960 of ...
... ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania were also using US Navy funding to develop a real-time simulation system, the Universal Digital Operational Flight Trainer, UDOFT. Unlike Whirlwind, this was to reach its original aim in 1960 of ...
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... ENIAC computers. The aim was to 'present the user with a perspective image which changes as he moves'.11 Sutherland's display comprised two main elements, a helmet and a tracking sensor. The helmet made its wearer look like an exotic ...
... ENIAC computers. The aim was to 'present the user with a perspective image which changes as he moves'.11 Sutherland's display comprised two main elements, a helmet and a tracking sensor. The helmet made its wearer look like an exotic ...
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... . , p . 133 . 9 J. P. Eckert Jnr , J. W. Mauchly et al . , Description of the ENIAC and Comments on Electronic Digital Computing Machines , Moore School of Electrical Engineering , University of Pennsylvania , 1945 . Notes.
... . , p . 133 . 9 J. P. Eckert Jnr , J. W. Mauchly et al . , Description of the ENIAC and Comments on Electronic Digital Computing Machines , Moore School of Electrical Engineering , University of Pennsylvania , 1945 . Notes.
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