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Lanier Jaron

Dawn of the New Everything / Encounters with reality and virtual reality / Jaron Lanier. - 2017. - New York; Henry Holt and company; 2017. - x-351 p . hardbound 16x24cm

Preface: Virtual Reality’s Moment

Introduction

1. 1960s: Terrors of Eden

2. Rescue Spacecraft

3. Batch Process

4. Why I Love VR (About the Basics)

5. Bug in the System (About the Dark Side of VR)

6. Road

7. Coast

8. Valley of Unearthly Delights

9. Alien Encounters

10. The Feeling of Immersion

11. To Don the New Everything (About Haptics, with a Little About Avatars)

12. Nautical Dawn

13. Six Degrees (A Little About Sensors and VR Data)

14. Found

15. Be Your Own Pyramidion (About Visual Displays for VR)

16. The VPL Experience

17. Inside-Out Spheres (A Little About VR “Video” and Sound)

18. Scene

19. How We Settled Into a Seed for the Future

20. 1992, Out

21. Coda: Reality’s Foil

Afterword

Appendix 1: Postsymbolic Communication (About the Reveries of One of My Classic VR Talks)

Appendix 2: Phenotropic Fevers (About VR Software)

Appendix 3: Dueling Demigods

ISBN: 978-1-62779-409-1

Dewey Class. No.: 004.092 / LAN