Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality 271 pages | Dec 12, 2000 |ISBN:0816632502 | PDF | 15 Mb
With virtual reality(VR)-- or at least the promise of it -- fast becoming a fixture in the public imagination, books like this are vitally important in shaping how we think about, make use of, and create future technologies of representation. Drawing from a remarkable breadth of cultural, technical, and philosophical thought, Ken Hillis's Digital Sensations remains direct and accessible as it deftly weaves together theory, insight, and imagination to understand VR as a technology with specific cultural and historical origins(origins that go farther back than computers, TV, even the telephone and telegraph). Hillis makes a passionate, convincing case that these roots influence the way VR is currently used(in everything from military simulations to avant-garde art installations)