Digital sensations : space, identity, and embodiment in virtual reality /
"Virtual reality is a technological reproduction of the process of perceiving the real, yet that process is filtered through the social realities and embedded cultural assumptions about human bodies and space held by the technology's creators. Digital Sensations looks closely at how the li...
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1999
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| Series: | Electronic mediations ;
v. 1. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Digital Relations; 1. A Critical History of Virtual Reality; 2. Precursive Cultural and Material Technologies Informing Contemporary Virtual Reality; 3. The Sensation of Ritual Space; 4. Sight and Space; 5. Space, Language, and Metaphor; 6. Identity, Embodiment, and Place
- VR as Postmodern Technology; Epilogue: Digital Sensations; Notes; References; Index.
