Digital Sensations : Space, Identity, And Embodiment In Virtual Reality /

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"Virtual reality is a technological reproduction of the process of perceiving the real, yet that process is filtered through the social realities and embedded cultural assumptions about human bodies and space held by the technology's creators. Digital Sensations looks closely at how the li...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hillis, Ken (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Processamento grafico (graphics)
Virtuele werkelijkheid.
Mens-computer-interactie.
Virtuelle Realität
Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
Virtual reality.
Human-computer interaction.
COMPUTERS > Virtual Worlds.
virtual reality.
Realite virtuelle.
Interaction personne-ordinateur.
Attitude to Computers
Virtual Reality
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Digital Relations; 1. A Critical History of Virtual Reality; 2. Precursive Cultural and Material Technologies Informing Contemporary Virtual Reality; 3. The Sensation of Ritual Space; 4. Sight and Space; 5. Space, Language, and Metaphor; 6. Identity, Embodiment, and Place
  • VR as Postmodern Technology; Epilogue: Digital Sensations; Notes; References; Index.

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