Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and HyperrealityIn 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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... described in Genesis, created by mysterious cosmic forces, was a volatile and dangerous place. It moulded human life through incomprehensible caprice. Natural beneficence tempered by natural disaster defined reality. For centuries, the ...
... described in Genesis, created by mysterious cosmic forces, was a volatile and dangerous place. It moulded human life through incomprehensible caprice. Natural beneficence tempered by natural disaster defined reality. For centuries, the ...
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... described bullshit as 'the grease for the skids upon which we ride into the future'. Bullshit there was in abundance at that epochal meeting, and Leary the canary jumped around and twittered in excitement at the smell of it. So did ...
... described bullshit as 'the grease for the skids upon which we ride into the future'. Bullshit there was in abundance at that epochal meeting, and Leary the canary jumped around and twittered in excitement at the smell of it. So did ...
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... described the experience of virtual reality thus: 'It's very hard to describe if you haven't experienced it. But there is an experience when you are dreaming of all possibilities being there, that anything can happen, and it is just an ...
... described the experience of virtual reality thus: 'It's very hard to describe if you haven't experienced it. But there is an experience when you are dreaming of all possibilities being there, that anything can happen, and it is just an ...
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... described as a 'cute little oxymoron', preferring to use 'synthetic experience' instead. But he accepted that it was unlikely to go away, and proceeded to outline a set of adventurous but practical experiments that conformed to the VR ...
... described as a 'cute little oxymoron', preferring to use 'synthetic experience' instead. But he accepted that it was unlikely to go away, and proceeded to outline a set of adventurous but practical experiments that conformed to the VR ...
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... described as a form of total immersion in media, and, in Lanier's case, this was proving to be almost literally true. While restating his belief that virtual reality revives our childhood powers of fantasy, he warned that 'this stuff is ...
... described as a form of total immersion in media, and, in Lanier's case, this was proving to be almost literally true. While restating his belief that virtual reality revives our childhood powers of fantasy, he warned that 'this stuff is ...
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