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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... colour , where different colours reflected how many ' iterations ' ( successive squaring and adding operations ) it took for the number to settle down to a fixed result . Given a starting number , is there any way of telling whether it ...
... colour , where different colours reflected how many ' iterations ' ( successive squaring and adding operations ) it took for the number to settle down to a fixed result . Given a starting number , is there any way of telling whether it ...
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... colours more vivid than they ever could have been on the refectory wall.27 Since the original is such an inadequate ... colour accuracy and faithfulness to detail never before available.'28 The results were , undoubtedly , startlingly ...
... colours more vivid than they ever could have been on the refectory wall.27 Since the original is such an inadequate ... colour accuracy and faithfulness to detail never before available.'28 The results were , undoubtedly , startlingly ...
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... colour , the clarity of the detail and the sheer size and the presentation in ' hand - crafted solid wood ' frames result in convincing replicas . ' Imagine having the opportunity to own and actually live with works of proven importance ...
... colour , the clarity of the detail and the sheer size and the presentation in ' hand - crafted solid wood ' frames result in convincing replicas . ' Imagine having the opportunity to own and actually live with works of proven importance ...
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