Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution“Enough with speculation about our digital future. Infinite Reality is the straight dope on what is and isn’t happening to us right now, from two of the only scientists working on the boundaries between real life and its virtual extensions.” How achievable are the virtual experiences seen in The Matrix, Tron, and James Cameron’s Avatar? Do our brains know where “reality” ends and “virtual” begins? In Infinite Reality, Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson, two pioneering experts in the field of virtual reality, reveal how the human brain behaves in virtual environments and examine where radical new developments in digital technology will lead us in five, fifty, and five hundred years. |
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User Review - DLMorrese - LibraryThingHow do people interact in virtual reality? Pretty much as they would in actual reality. There's an underlying assumption in this book that virtual reality sophisticated enough to allow people to walk ... Read full review
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User Review - BakuDreamer - LibraryThingLike a primer about virtual reality for people who've had their head in a virtual bucket for the last twenty five years. ( But some useful info toward the end ) Read full review
Contents
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A Museum of Virtual Media | 24 |
Mirror Mirror on the Wall | 37 |
Winning Virtual Friends and Influencing Virtual People | 65 |
The Virtual Laboratory | 83 |
Who Am I? | 95 |
Recreating Yourself | 109 |
Eternal Life | 138 |
Digital Footprints | 154 |
The Virtual Jones | 169 |
Virtually Useful | 191 |
Virtual Yin and Yang | 227 |
More Human Than Human | 256 |
Notes | 269 |
Index | 292 |
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Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the ... Jim Blascovich,Jeremy Bailenson No preview available - 2011 |
Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the ... Jim Blascovich,Jeremy Bailenson No preview available - 2011 |
Infinite Reality: The Hidden Blueprint of Our Virtual Lives Jim Blascovich,Jeremy Bailenson No preview available - 2012 |