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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... turns out at the end of the commercial to be J. R. Hartley. So moved was the audience by this story that bookshops and even the British Library were reportedly overwhelmed with requests for it — even though, of course, no such book and ...
... turns out at the end of the commercial to be J. R. Hartley. So moved was the audience by this story that bookshops and even the British Library were reportedly overwhelmed with requests for it — even though, of course, no such book and ...
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... turn its operation to our own ends, shows how successful science has been in discovering how it works, and technology in exploiting that discovery. The industrial experience, in other words, seems to have both destroyed reality and ...
... turn its operation to our own ends, shows how successful science has been in discovering how it works, and technology in exploiting that discovery. The industrial experience, in other words, seems to have both destroyed reality and ...
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... turn on, drop out', and may well have attended enough meetings held by non-human beings to be in a position to make the comparison. Nevertheless, the meeting he was referring to hardly seemed to justify such an extravagant billing. He ...
... turn on, drop out', and may well have attended enough meetings held by non-human beings to be in a position to make the comparison. Nevertheless, the meeting he was referring to hardly seemed to justify such an extravagant billing. He ...
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... turn up. The selection of Bushnell was, despite his absence, one that to a large extent reflected virtual reality's emerging 'Big Idea' identity. While working as an engineer for the Californian recording equipment and tape manufacturer ...
... turn up. The selection of Bushnell was, despite his absence, one that to a large extent reflected virtual reality's emerging 'Big Idea' identity. While working as an engineer for the Californian recording equipment and tape manufacturer ...
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... turn computer games into a whole new medium, a competitor to television and film. People like Fisher were appointed specifically because they had worked on academic research teams that had already addressed this issue, specifically in ...
... turn computer games into a whole new medium, a competitor to television and film. People like Fisher were appointed specifically because they had worked on academic research teams that had already addressed this issue, specifically in ...
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