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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... wrote Brand . ' I began to realize why artificial intelligence and robotics and [ computer - generated ] animation have become such fundamental science . The researchers are reinventing the world from scratch . . . . We are banging our ...
... wrote Brand . ' I began to realize why artificial intelligence and robotics and [ computer - generated ] animation have become such fundamental science . The researchers are reinventing the world from scratch . . . . We are banging our ...
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... wrote Brand in 1989:16 'Computing power dispersed... Thanks to the deliberate grassroots revolt of the creators of personal computers and the lavish cleverness of the makers of consumer electronics, the bit business began to be taken ...
... wrote Brand in 1989:16 'Computing power dispersed... Thanks to the deliberate grassroots revolt of the creators of personal computers and the lavish cleverness of the makers of consumer electronics, the bit business began to be taken ...
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... wrote that virtual reality was threatening to split the computer graphics world in twain: 'At one extreme are those who predict that virtual reality may some day rank as one of the greatest inventions since the telephone or the personal ...
... wrote that virtual reality was threatening to split the computer graphics world in twain: 'At one extreme are those who predict that virtual reality may some day rank as one of the greatest inventions since the telephone or the personal ...
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... wrote Sutherland, 'would . . . be a room within which the computer can control the existence of matter. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet ...
... wrote Sutherland, 'would . . . be a room within which the computer can control the existence of matter. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet ...
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... wrote Sutherland, 'could be computer controlled, just as the actuation force on the controls of a Link Trainer are changed to give the feel of a real airplane.'4 Here we encounter the reason why the origin of any scientific or ...
... wrote Sutherland, 'could be computer controlled, just as the actuation force on the controls of a Link Trainer are changed to give the feel of a real airplane.'4 Here we encounter the reason why the origin of any scientific or ...
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