Virtual Reality: Exploring the Brave New Technologies of Artificial Experience and Interactive Worlds - From Cyberspace to Teledildonics - Couverture rigide

Rheingold, Howard

 
9780436412127: Virtual Reality: Exploring the Brave New Technologies of Artificial Experience and Interactive Worlds - From Cyberspace to Teledildonics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0436412128 ISBN 13 : 9780436412127
Editeur : Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

A book for the general reader on the revolutionary technology of computer-generated artificial worlds, and how it promises and threatens to transform society and business. Virtual reality creates the convincing illusion of being immersed in an artificial world that exists only inside a computer.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Imagine being able to "walk" into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it's science fact. Surgeons now rehearse operations on computer-generated "virtual" patients, and architects "walk through" virtual buildings while the actual structures are still in blueprints. In Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold takes us to the front lines of this revolutionary new technology that creates computer-generated worlds complete with the sensations of touch and motion, and explores its impact on everything from entertainment to particle physics.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0436412128
ISBN 13 
9780436412127
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780671778972: Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds-And How It Promises to Transform Society

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0671778978 ISBN 13 :  9780671778972
Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 1992
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