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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... tion . It was a bravura performance , the sort that made him the centre of so much press attention - indeed , VR has been described as a form of total immersion in media , and , in Lanier's case , this was proving to be almost literally ...
... tion . It was a bravura performance , the sort that made him the centre of so much press attention - indeed , VR has been described as a form of total immersion in media , and , in Lanier's case , this was proving to be almost literally ...
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... tion used when various members of the US congress wondered aloud what the benefits of the NASA space programme were . The Americans were never in competition in any case - or perhaps they were running on a different racetrack . Japan ...
... tion used when various members of the US congress wondered aloud what the benefits of the NASA space programme were . The Americans were never in competition in any case - or perhaps they were running on a different racetrack . Japan ...
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... tion , of general emancipation before the eyes of postmodern man . ' Postmodernism represents a ' rupture ' with the modernist belief in universal truths . However , as Lyotard observed , this third aspect , possibly the one that is ...
... tion , of general emancipation before the eyes of postmodern man . ' Postmodernism represents a ' rupture ' with the modernist belief in universal truths . However , as Lyotard observed , this third aspect , possibly the one that is ...
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