Jaron Lanier

Dawn of the New Everything (eBook, ePUB)

A Journey Through Virtual Reality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal & Vox 'The father of virtual reality' (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ultimate test for humanity. 'Essential reading, not just for VR-watchers but for anyone interested in how society came to be how it is, and what it might yet become' Economist Welcome to a mind-expanding, life-enhancing, world-changing adventure. Virtual reality has long been one of the dominant clichés of science fiction. Now virtual reality is a reality: from the startling beauty of lifelike video games to the place where war veterans overcome PTSD, surgeries are trialled, and aircraft and cities are designed. VR is, in fact now, the most effective device ever invented for researching what a human being actually is - and how we think and feel. More than thirty years ago, legendary computer scientist, visionary and artist Jaron Lanier pioneered its invention. Here he blends scientific investigation, philosophical thought experiment and his memoir of a life lived at the centre of digital innovation to explain what VR really is: the science of comprehensive illusion; the extension of the intimate magic of earliest childhood into adulthood; a hint of what life would be like without any limits. We are standing on the threshold of an entirely new realm of human creativity, expression, communication and experience, and as we use VR to test our relationship with reality, it may test us in return. 'Vivid and absolutely extraordinary' Evening Standard

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473522794
• Artikelnr.: 45325559

Autorenporträt

Jaron Lanier is a philosopher and computer scientist who has spent his career pushing the transformative power of modern technology to its limits. From coining the term 'Virtual Reality' and creating the world's first immersive avatars to developing cutting-edge medical imaging and surgical techniques, Lanier is one of the premier designers and engineers at work today. He is also one of the most celebrated technology writers in the world, whose previous book Who Owns the Future? was named the most important book of 2013 by Joe Nocera in The New York Times and whose first book You Are Not a Gadget was named one of the ten best books of 2010 by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time, one of the 100 top public intellectuals by Foreign Policy, and one of the top 50 World Thinkers by Prospect. He is currently Interdisciplinary Scientist at Microsoft Research and a highly accomplished musician with one of the largest and most varied collections of rare instruments in the world, all of which he plays.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Virtual Reality's Moment
Introduction
1. 1960s: Terrors of Eden
2. Rescue Spacecraft
3. Batch Process
4. Why I Love VR (About the Basics)
5. Bug in the System (About the Dark Side of VR)
6. Road
7. Coast
8. Valley of Unearthly Delights
9. Alien Encounters
10. The Feeling of Immersion
11. To Don the New Everything (About Haptics, with a Little About Avatars)
12. Nautical Dawn
13. Six Degrees (A Little About Sensors and VR Data)
14. Found
15. Be Your Own Pyramidion (About Visual Displays for VR)
16. The VPL Experience
17. Inside-Out Spheres (A Little About VR "Video" and Sound)
18. Scene
19. How We Settled Into a Seed for the Future
20. 1992, Out
21. Coda: Reality's Foil
Afterword
Appendix 1: Postsymbolic Communication (About the Reveries of One of My
Classic VR Talks)
Appendix 2: Phenotropic Fevers (About VR Software)
Appendix 3: Dueling Demigods

Rezensionen

A terrific book by a supremely intelligent guy ... vivid and absolutely extraordinary Evening Standard