| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"Through a ... look back over his life in technology, Jaron Lanier, an interdisciplinary scientist and father of the term 'virtual reality,' exposes VR's ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species, and gives readers a new perspective on how the brain and body connect to the world. [A] ... blend of autobiography, science writing, philosophy, and advice, this book tells the wild story of his personal and professional life as a scientist, from his childhood in the UFO territory of New Mexico, to the loss of his mother, the founding of the first start-up, and finally becoming a world-renowned technological guru"--Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Lanier, Jaron.
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| Subject(S) |
Computer scientists -- United States -- Biography.
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Virtual reality -- Philosophy.
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Virtual reality -- Social aspects.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Title |
Encounters with reality and virtual reality |
| ISBN |
9781627794091 (hardcover) |
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1627794093 (hardcover) |
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