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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-3 van 48
Pagina 21
... physical simulation . In fact , when you are buildings systems in order to get a physical simulation , what you do is take your VR and add contraints to it . Throw away the constraints and you're in something that's a bigger space than ...
... physical simulation . In fact , when you are buildings systems in order to get a physical simulation , what you do is take your VR and add contraints to it . Throw away the constraints and you're in something that's a bigger space than ...
Pagina 55
... physical laws can be applied to reproduce qualities like mass just as geometrical ones reproduce size and shape . Using the ultimate display , such ' physical ' objects could be picked up , dropped , thrown , even moulded . The force ...
... physical laws can be applied to reproduce qualities like mass just as geometrical ones reproduce size and shape . Using the ultimate display , such ' physical ' objects could be picked up , dropped , thrown , even moulded . The force ...
Pagina 61
... physical reality was liberating on the one hand – it meant that it was no longer the servant of science but the master of itself - but robbed it at the same time of its authority . If it was no longer a means of describing physical ...
... physical reality was liberating on the one hand – it meant that it was no longer the servant of science but the master of itself - but robbed it at the same time of its authority . If it was no longer a means of describing physical ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
abstract Alan Turing argued artificial intelligence artificial reality Baudrillard become behaviour called catastrophe theory cellular automata century chaos chaos theory complex computer graphics computer virus concept Copenhagen interpretation create cultural cyberspace demonstrated described designed discover electronic emerged ENIAC environment example exist experience explore fiction film hackers human hyperreal idea imagination industry interactive interface language Leary London machine Mandelbrot manipulation mathematical mathematician means mechanical memory metaphor modern movement narrative nature objects observation Olestra Oxford paradigm patterns Penguin perhaps personal computer phenomena philosopher physical physicist picture possible postmodernism principle produce published quantum realm reproduce result scientific scientists screen seemed sense SIGGRAPH simply simulation sort space Stewart Brand structure subatomic Sutherland symbols television Timothy Leary truth Turing Turing's turn universe virtual reality virus words wrote Xanadu