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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... visual display unit , VDU . Sutherland's ultimate display , however , would go much further than that . It would not be just visual , or even just aural , it would be ' kinesthetic ' . " The force required to move a joystick , ' wrote ...
... visual display unit , VDU . Sutherland's ultimate display , however , would go much further than that . It would not be just visual , or even just aural , it would be ' kinesthetic ' . " The force required to move a joystick , ' wrote ...
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... like aircraft , losing any visual reference to aircraft fuselages , leaving behind a windowless dome mounted on a hydraulic platform , an airline insignia the last remaining external evidence of what the machine Simulation 43.
... like aircraft , losing any visual reference to aircraft fuselages , leaving behind a windowless dome mounted on a hydraulic platform , an airline insignia the last remaining external evidence of what the machine Simulation 43.
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... visual arts since the invention of photography . Deprived of its monopoly on depiction , painting needed new ways of justifying itself . In his 1859 essay ' The modern public and photography ' , Baudelaire railed that ' where one should ...
... visual arts since the invention of photography . Deprived of its monopoly on depiction , painting needed new ways of justifying itself . In his 1859 essay ' The modern public and photography ' , Baudelaire railed that ' where one should ...
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