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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... look , then , at how virtual reality and artificial reality , the technology and culture , are changing public reality . Because the formidable might of commerce and in particular the computing industry have been deployed in defining ...
... look , then , at how virtual reality and artificial reality , the technology and culture , are changing public reality . Because the formidable might of commerce and in particular the computing industry have been deployed in defining ...
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... look like ? If , for example , you have a three- dimensional model of a molecule , and want to inspect it using a pair of goggles , how do you visualize it ? A molecule is invisibly small , so what does it look like ? Those with any ...
... look like ? If , for example , you have a three- dimensional model of a molecule , and want to inspect it using a pair of goggles , how do you visualize it ? A molecule is invisibly small , so what does it look like ? Those with any ...
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... Look and Learn strange - but - true certainties have been eroded by the sophisticated arguments of theorists like Thomas Kuhn , the man who gave us ' paradigm shifts ' , Jean - François Lyotard , who saw science as a sort of convincing ...
... Look and Learn strange - but - true certainties have been eroded by the sophisticated arguments of theorists like Thomas Kuhn , the man who gave us ' paradigm shifts ' , Jean - François Lyotard , who saw science as a sort of convincing ...
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