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User Review - PacoMD - LibraryThingI remember I didn't like this very much, because it all seemed too journalistic and kind of Wired-ese; emotion before a new technology, but not much science or reason behind it. Read full review
VIRTUAL REALITY
User Review - KirkusFrom the author of Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind (1988), an exciting and comprehensive update on the latest in interactive computer technology. William Gibson's novel Neuromancer perhaps best ... Read full review
Contents
GRASPING REALITY THROUGH ILLUSION | 13 |
THE EXPERIENCE THEATER AND THE | 49 |
BLASTOFF AT NASA | 131 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Virtual Reality A Mandarin paperback |
| Author | Howard Rheingold |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0436412128, 9780436412127 |
| Length | 415 pages |
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