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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Pagina 55
... imagination ? Not in the usual sense . Are they , then , natural , physical , actual ? Again , not in the usual sense . They exist in what Sutherland called a ' mathematical wonderland ' , a wonderland ultimately determined not by the ...
... imagination ? Not in the usual sense . Are they , then , natural , physical , actual ? Again , not in the usual sense . They exist in what Sutherland called a ' mathematical wonderland ' , a wonderland ultimately determined not by the ...
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... imagination ; either way , they are out , too . Architecture serves some practical purpose , which means its study is a matter of finding efficient mechanisms for realizing the client's wishes the client's wishes , however , remain the ...
... imagination ; either way , they are out , too . Architecture serves some practical purpose , which means its study is a matter of finding efficient mechanisms for realizing the client's wishes the client's wishes , however , remain the ...
Pagina 185
... imagination brings on the event , " say the scholars . I am one of those who are very much affected by the imagination . Everyone feels its impact , but some are knocked over by it ... the sight of another's anguish gives me real pain ...
... imagination brings on the event , " say the scholars . I am one of those who are very much affected by the imagination . Everyone feels its impact , but some are knocked over by it ... the sight of another's anguish gives me real pain ...
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