271 pages | Dec 12, 2000 |ISBN:0816632502 | PDF | 15 Mb...
With virtual reality (VR) - or at least the promise of him - quickly becomes impossible to circumvent in l' imagination of the public, of the books of this kind are d' a vital importance to model the way of thinking, d' to use and to create technologies of l' future of the representation. Drawing to leave d' a remarkable extent of the cultural, technical and philosophical thought, Ken Hillis its feelings numerical direct and accessible remainder, because it weaves skilfully unit theory, d' intuition and d' imagination to include/understand the RV like a technology having specific and historical cultural origins (origins which go back further than the computers, the TV, even the telephone and the telegraph). Hillis makes a deal, impassioned convincing that these d' roots; to influence way VR is currently used (in all, of military simulations for d' installations; art d' avant-garde).