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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... example , if , as is the case with some accounts , the interest rate itself rises as the balance rises , the interest accrued can push up the balance sufficiently to increase the interest rate , producing a sort of feedback loop ( or ...
... example , if , as is the case with some accounts , the interest rate itself rises as the balance rises , the interest accrued can push up the balance sufficiently to increase the interest rate , producing a sort of feedback loop ( or ...
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... example , or sociology or literary criticism.26 Now , he argued , the ' discourses ' are dissolving into a new kind of writing called simply ' theory ' . ' This new kind of discourse , generally associated with France and so - called ...
... example , or sociology or literary criticism.26 Now , he argued , the ' discourses ' are dissolving into a new kind of writing called simply ' theory ' . ' This new kind of discourse , generally associated with France and so - called ...
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... example , virtual reality systems will imminently be capable of realizing a fictional world indistinguishable from the real one seems to skirt round some unanswered questions about the nature of fiction and the nature of simulation . Is ...
... example , virtual reality systems will imminently be capable of realizing a fictional world indistinguishable from the real one seems to skirt round some unanswered questions about the nature of fiction and the nature of simulation . Is ...
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