Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and HyperrealityPenguin Books, 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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... critical examination , the growths and malfunctions of the internal organs . Just like a Barium meal , some people find any discussion about artificial or virtual reality hard to swallow . Upon introducing the idea to innocent members ...
... critical examination , the growths and malfunctions of the internal organs . Just like a Barium meal , some people find any discussion about artificial or virtual reality hard to swallow . Upon introducing the idea to innocent members ...
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... critical state by building a computer simulation of one with uniform square grains . This fairly accurately managed to model the way a sand pile behaved as grains are added , although researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge ...
... critical state by building a computer simulation of one with uniform square grains . This fairly accurately managed to model the way a sand pile behaved as grains are added , although researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge ...
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... critical theory , structural anthropology implied that the modern world could be better understood as a vast text that could be critically examined using the same basic techniques as one might examine a novel or play . Furthermore ...
... critical theory , structural anthropology implied that the modern world could be better understood as a vast text that could be critically examined using the same basic techniques as one might examine a novel or play . Furthermore ...
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