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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... sense of the developments that have led to this rude instrusion of metaphysics into ordinary life . The first issue is simulation . Computers are unique in that they are all , in a sense , simulations of some ideal computer , a l ...
... sense of the developments that have led to this rude instrusion of metaphysics into ordinary life . The first issue is simulation . Computers are unique in that they are all , in a sense , simulations of some ideal computer , a l ...
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... sense . Are they , then , natural , physical , actual ? Again , not in the usual sense . They exist in what Sutherland called a ' mathematical wonderland ' , a wonderland ultimately determined not by the imagination of any particular ...
... sense . Are they , then , natural , physical , actual ? Again , not in the usual sense . They exist in what Sutherland called a ' mathematical wonderland ' , a wonderland ultimately determined not by the imagination of any particular ...
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... sense of reality – indeed , to reinforce the sense that there really is an embankment surrounding the imaginary and preventing it from bleeding out into reality - a reassurance that 300 million of us have sought at the Florida Disney ...
... sense of reality – indeed , to reinforce the sense that there really is an embankment surrounding the imaginary and preventing it from bleeding out into reality - a reassurance that 300 million of us have sought at the Florida Disney ...
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