Howard Rheingold

Virtual Reality

The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds-And How It Promises to Transform Society

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchstone
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780671778972
• ISBN-10: 0671778978
• Artikelnr.: 21682198

Autorenporträt

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.