Digital Sensations - 9780816632510

Digital SensationsSpace, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality\nAuthor(s): Ken Hillis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816632510, 978-0816632510\nSynopsis\nConsiders the cultural and philosophical assumptions underlying virtual reality, and how the technology affects the real world.\n\nVirtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology-or the idea-so prevalent precisely now? What does it mean-what does it do-to us? Digital Sensations looks closely at how the lived world is affected by representational forms generated by communication technologies, especially digital and optical virtual technologies.\n\nVirtual reality, or VR, 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 technologys cr.