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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 30
Page 95
... image , is several million bits ' worth of information . So no device could possibly send moving video images down the line . Nevertheless , that is what the manufacturers claimed to have achieved - well , almost , allowing for the ...
... image , is several million bits ' worth of information . So no device could possibly send moving video images down the line . Nevertheless , that is what the manufacturers claimed to have achieved - well , almost , allowing for the ...
Page 193
... image was starting to gain sway over the object , time over space.'11 The picture overtook what it depicted , images of war became the war . The ' authentic ' war was no more to be found on the field of conflict than the ' authentic ...
... image was starting to gain sway over the object , time over space.'11 The picture overtook what it depicted , images of war became the war . The ' authentic ' war was no more to be found on the field of conflict than the ' authentic ...
Page 231
... images on a two - dimensional plate , and which is familiar to most of us in the form of novelty badges showing a ... image in each shard . This is how the universe presents itself to the scientist's inspection . An image of a quantum ...
... images on a two - dimensional plate , and which is familiar to most of us in the form of novelty badges showing a ... image in each shard . This is how the universe presents itself to the scientist's inspection . An image of a quantum ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstract Alan Turing argued artificial intelligence artificial reality Baudrillard become behaviour called catastrophe theory cellular automata century chaos chaos theory complex computer graphics computer virus concept Copenhagen interpretation create cultural cyberspace demonstrated described designed discover electronic emerged ENIAC environment example exist experience explore fiction film hackers human hyperreal idea imagination industry interactive interface language Leary London machine Mandelbrot manipulation mathematical mathematician means mechanical memory metaphor modern movement narrative nature objects observation Olestra Oxford paradigm patterns Penguin perhaps personal computer phenomena philosopher physical physicist picture possible postmodernism principle produce published quantum realm reproduce result scientific scientists screen seemed sense SIGGRAPH simply simulation sort space Stewart Brand structure subatomic Sutherland symbols television Timothy Leary truth Turing Turing's turn universe virtual reality virus words wrote Xanadu