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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... gallery devoted to VR installations entitled ' Tomorrow's realities ' , the editor of the trade magazine Computer Graphics World , Phil LoPiccolo , wrote that virtual reality was threatening to split the computer graphics world in twain ...
... gallery devoted to VR installations entitled ' Tomorrow's realities ' , the editor of the trade magazine Computer Graphics World , Phil LoPiccolo , wrote that virtual reality was threatening to split the computer graphics world in twain ...
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... gallery cafe's piquantly - dressed leaves of highly fractal endive : ' I did not discover the fact that clouds are like billows upon billows upon billows . Every child knows that . Every landscape painter knows that . What I did was ...
... gallery cafe's piquantly - dressed leaves of highly fractal endive : ' I did not discover the fact that clouds are like billows upon billows upon billows . Every child knows that . Every landscape painter knows that . What I did was ...
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... Gallery at the University of Wisconsin which required visitors to walk into a dark room with tubes of fluorescent light lining the walls . As they walked , Moog music would rotate around the room , and waves of coloured light would pass ...
... Gallery at the University of Wisconsin which required visitors to walk into a dark room with tubes of fluorescent light lining the walls . As they walked , Moog music would rotate around the room , and waves of coloured light would pass ...
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