Research Catalog
Virtual reality
- Title
- Virtual reality / Howard Rheingold.
- Author
- Rheingold, Howard.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 1992, ©1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | Q183.9 .R44 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 415 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A Touchstone book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-399) and index.
- Contents
- Grasping reality through illusion -- Experience theater and the art of binocular illusion -- Machines to think with -- Threshold of virtual exploration -- Entering cyberspace -- Blastoff at NASA -- Birth of the VR business -- Cyberspace and serious business -- Reality on your retina -- Cool gadgets and industrial policies -- "Visual, intelligent, and personal" -- Out of the body -- Origins of drama and the future of fun -- Feel of things -- Homebrew VR -- Teledildonics and beyond -- Cyberspace and human nature.
- ISBN
- 0671693638
- 9780671693633
- 0671778978
- 9780671778972
- 0749308893
- 9780749308896
- OCLC
- ocm26491453
- 26491453
- SCSB-9145979
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library