Dawn of the new everything : encounters with reality and virtual reality
Jaron Lanier (Author)
The Microsoft interdisciplinary scientist largely credited with popularizing virtual reality reflects on his lifelong relationship with technology, showing VR's ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species and how the brain and body connect to the world. By the author of You Are Not a Gadget. --Publisher
Print Book, English, 2017
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Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2017
Autobiographies
xv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781627794091, 1627794093
976406119
Preface: Virtual reality's moment
Introduction
1960s: terrors of Eden
Rescue spacecraft
Batch process
Why I love VR (about the basics)
Bug in the system (about the dark side of VR)
Road
Coast
Valley of unearthly delights
Alien encounters
The feeling of immersion
To don the new everything (about haptics with a little about avatars)
Nautical dawn
Six degrees (a little about sensors and VR data)
Found
Be your own paramidion (about visual displays for VR)
The VPL experience
Inside-out spheres (a little about VR "video" and sound)
Scene
How we settled into a seed for the future
1992, out
Coda: Reality's foil
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