Dawn of the New Everything / Encounters with reality and virtual reality / Jaron Lanier.

By:

Lanier Jaron

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York; Henry Holt and company; 2017.Edition: 2017Description: x-351 p . hardbound 16x24cmISBN:

978-1-62779-409-1

DDC classification:

23 004.092 LAN

Contents:

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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Tetso College Library Computer Science	Non-fiction	004.092 LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		10572

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

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