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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... nature? Evidence of artificialization seemed to be abundant at the time of writing this book. Wherever one looked, artificiality was triumphing over reality. In the closing months of 1991, as the Soviet Union broke apart, INTRODUCTION.
... nature? Evidence of artificialization seemed to be abundant at the time of writing this book. Wherever one looked, artificiality was triumphing over reality. In the closing months of 1991, as the Soviet Union broke apart, INTRODUCTION.
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... seemed, this was no ordinary book. British Telecom had run a series of television commercials featuring an elderly man locating a copy of the out-of-print Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley using the Yellow Pages. The man turns out at the end ...
... seemed, this was no ordinary book. British Telecom had run a series of television commercials featuring an elderly man locating a copy of the out-of-print Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley using the Yellow Pages. The man turns out at the end ...
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... seemed to say, is complicated enough without making it more complicated with such outlandish ideas. Such an attitude has a proud and long tradition in Anglo-Saxon culture. You could say it was formulated as long ago as the fourteenth ...
... seemed to say, is complicated enough without making it more complicated with such outlandish ideas. Such an attitude has a proud and long tradition in Anglo-Saxon culture. You could say it was formulated as long ago as the fourteenth ...
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... seemed to justify such an extravagant billing. He may have invoked the ghosts of Plato, Max Planck, Marshall McLuhan and the Grateful Dead, declared the dawn of a new era, thanked and loved all the people who had brought it about, but ...
... seemed to justify such an extravagant billing. He may have invoked the ghosts of Plato, Max Planck, Marshall McLuhan and the Grateful Dead, declared the dawn of a new era, thanked and loved all the people who had brought it about, but ...
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... seemed to be relevant to the development of VR, particularly in the area of simulation, was simply not counted as being part of the canon of research because the people doing the work were not part of the movement. It was not that the ...
... seemed to be relevant to the development of VR, particularly in the area of simulation, was simply not counted as being part of the canon of research because the people doing the work were not part of the movement. It was not that the ...
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