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

Rheingold, Howard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749308893 ISBN 13 : 9780749308896

Editeur : Mandarin, 1992

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mandarin
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0749308893
• ISBN 13: 9780749308896
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible