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Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds-And How It Promises to Transform Society Paperback - 1992

by Howard Rheingold

The mind-boggling bestseller on computer-generated artificial worlds, now available in trade paperback. Rheingold takes readers on a guided tour through the remarkable new technology that creates virtual reality--artificial worlds complete with the sensations of touch and motion.


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Imagine being able to "walk" into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it's science fact. Surgeons now rehearse operations on computer-generated "virtual" patients, and architects "walk through" virtual buildings while the actual structures are still in blueprints. In Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold takes us to the front lines of this revolutionary new technology that creates computer-generated worlds complete with the sensations of touch and motion, and explores its impact on everything from entertainment to particle physics.

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At the university of North Carolina, I had a conversion experience akin to the experience that had bonded many of the personal computer pioneers of the 1960s and 1970s-a compelling vision of the future.

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  • Title Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds-And How It Promises to Transform Society
  • Author Howard Rheingold
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-08-01
  • ISBN 9780671778972 / 0671778978
  • Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 6.32 x 1.05 in (20.32 x 16.05 x 2.67 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 501.13

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  • Publishers Weekly, 06/15/1992, Page 0

About the author

Howard Rheingold Howard Rheingold is author of Tools for Thought, Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind, They Have a Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases; coauthor of Higher Creativity and The Cognitive Connection; and editor of Whole Earth Review. He is multimedia columnist for Publish magazine and has been consultant to the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment. He has written for the New York Times, Esquire, Psychology Today, Playboy, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Omni.
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