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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... exists - no , that myself is all that exists . The computing industry was built on the liberal belief in the individual as the only legitimate political entity , and virtual reality has , in some hands , been promoted as the ultimate ...
... exists - no , that myself is all that exists . The computing industry was built on the liberal belief in the individual as the only legitimate political entity , and virtual reality has , in some hands , been promoted as the ultimate ...
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... exist in this computer - generated space , and that a head - mounted display of the sort he proposed provided a chance to peer into this space and inspect whatever was within it . With the ' ultimate display ' , the objects in computer ...
... exist in this computer - generated space , and that a head - mounted display of the sort he proposed provided a chance to peer into this space and inspect whatever was within it . With the ' ultimate display ' , the objects in computer ...
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... exist as part of the information realm . They exist in the same sense that the number at the billion billionth decimal place in the mathematical quantity pi exists . The true story of your death exists in that it is a particular ...
... exist as part of the information realm . They exist in the same sense that the number at the billion billionth decimal place in the mathematical quantity pi exists . The true story of your death exists in that it is a particular ...
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