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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814164403321

Autore

Heim Michael <1944->

Titolo

Virtual realism / / Michael Heim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

0-19-756169-1

1-4237-6068-9

0-19-535009-X

1-60256-773-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 238p., [8]p. of plates ) : ill. (some col.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

303.4834

Soggetti

Human-computer interaction

Virtual reality

Computers - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. VR 101; 2. Virtual Realism; 3. The Art of Virtual Reality; 4. Interactive Design: Tunnel or Spiral?; 5. InfoEcology; 6. Nature and Cyberspace; 7. AWS and UFOs; Notes on Artists and Art Works; Vocabulary of Virtual Realism; Bibliography for Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In an attempt to fashion a new way of linking the limits of technology as it stands currently with the way humans live the author has come up with the concept of 'Virtual Realism'. He shows how humans can harmonise with the new technologies.