VIRTUAL REALITY: EXPLORING THE BRAVE NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF ARTIFICIAL EXPERIENCE AND INTERACTIVE WORLDS - FROM CYBERSPACE TO TELEDILDONICS - Hardcover

Rheingold, Howard

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9780436412127: VIRTUAL REALITY: EXPLORING THE BRAVE NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF ARTIFICIAL EXPERIENCE AND INTERACTIVE WORLDS - FROM CYBERSPACE TO TELEDILDONICS
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0436412128 ISBN 13: 9780436412127
Publisher: Summit, 1991

Synopsis

The first book for the general reader on the revolutionary technology of computer-generated artificial worlds--virtual reality. Rheingold weaves the philosophical, psychological, social, and economic implications of this fast-breaking research into a narrative that reaches back to cave paintings and forward to the 21st century where it will affect our daily lives.

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About the Author

Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold is author of Tools for Thought, Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind, They Have a Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases; coauthor of Higher Creativity and The Cognitive Connection; and editor of Whole Earth Review. He is multimedia columnist for Publish magazine and has been consultant to the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment. He has written for the New York Times, Esquire, Psychology Today, Playboy, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Omni.

From Library Journal

The term "virtual reality" describes the computer-generated simulation of reality with physical, tactile, and visual dimensions. This interactive technology is used by science and engineering researchers as well as by the entertainment industry, especially in the form of video games. In this book, Rheingold, editor of Whole Earth Review , reports on his visits to virtual reality labs in industry and universities around the world. He describes the eerie experience of using virtual reality systems that can simulate a walk-through of a building in an architectural graphics program, interviews leading researchers, and speculates on the social and psychological implications of this technology, in which the artificial world overlaps with reality. He also highlights the aims of system designers and gives a good sense of the exploratory nature of this research. Recommended for popular technology and science collections.
- Christopher Jocius, Illinois Mathematics & Science Acad., Aurora
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Publisher
Summit
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0436412128
ISBN 13 
9780436412127
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
415
Rating
  • 3.78 out of 5 stars
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