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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... artificial ? Is there , can there be , any contact with reality when it is possible to make fat that is not fat , when the fake becomes indistinguishable from - even more authentic than - the original , when computers can create ...
... artificial ? Is there , can there be , any contact with reality when it is possible to make fat that is not fat , when the fake becomes indistinguishable from - even more authentic than - the original , when computers can create ...
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... reality . For centuries , the goal of human effort was to tap Nature's terrible power . Our success has been so complete , that a new world has emerged . Created by human ingenuity , it is an artificial reality . The champions of virtual ...
... reality . For centuries , the goal of human effort was to tap Nature's terrible power . Our success has been so complete , that a new world has emerged . Created by human ingenuity , it is an artificial reality . The champions of virtual ...
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... Artificial reality , then , expresses the ambiguity of current attitudes to reality . But that ambiguity is not , as most commentators on the subject have taken it to be , evidence that there is no reality . Just because there is a reality ...
... Artificial reality , then , expresses the ambiguity of current attitudes to reality . But that ambiguity is not , as most commentators on the subject have taken it to be , evidence that there is no reality . Just because there is a reality ...
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