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Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Virtual reality

Dawn of the New Everything - Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality (Paperback): Jaron Lanier Dawn of the New Everything - Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality (Paperback)
Jaron Lanier
R581 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Experience Machines - The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds (Paperback): Mark Silcox Experience Machines - The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds (Paperback)
Mark Silcox
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a 'machine that would give you any experience you desired'. He speculated that, in spite of the many obvious attractions of such a prospect, most people would choose against passing the rest of their lives under the influence of this type of invention. Nozick thought (and many have since agreed) that this simple thought experiment had profound implications for how we think about ethics, political justice, and the significance of technology in our everyday lives. Nozick's argument was made in 1974, about a decade before the personal computer revolution in Europe and North America. Since then, opportunities for the citizens of industrialized societies to experience virtual worlds and simulated environments have multiplied to an extent that no philosopher could have predicted. The authors in this volume re-evaluate the merits of Nozick's argument, and use it as a jumping-off point for the philosophical examination of subsequent developments in culture and technology, including a variety of experience-altering cybernetic technologies such as computer games, social media networks, HCI devices, and neuro-prostheses.

Digital Representations of the Real World - How to Capture, Model, and Render Visual Reality (Hardcover): Marcus A. Magnor,... Digital Representations of the Real World - How to Capture, Model, and Render Visual Reality (Hardcover)
Marcus A. Magnor, Oliver Grau, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Christian Theobalt
R3,971 Discovery Miles 39 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Create Genuine Visual Realism in Computer Graphics Digital Representations of the Real World: How to Capture, Model, and Render Visual Reality explains how to portray visual worlds with a high degree of realism using the latest video acquisition technology, computer graphics methods, and computer vision algorithms. It explores the integration of new capture modalities, reconstruction approaches, and visual perception into the computer graphics pipeline. Understand the Entire Pipeline from Acquisition, Reconstruction, and Modeling to Realistic Rendering and Applications The book covers sensors for capturing 3D scenes, including regular cameras, wide-angle omnidirectional cameras, active range scanners, and plenoptic (multi-viewpoint) cameras, as well as fundamental algorithms for processing the imagery, such as stereo correspondence and 3D structure and motion recovery. It describes 3D modeling techniques, from generic object models (such as 3D meshes) to more domain-specific models (such as human shape and motion models). The book also discusses how techniques, including image- and video-based rendering, meet speed and realism requirements. Overcome Challenges in Your Own Research Experiments This book is both an accessible introduction to the emerging research of real-world visual computing and a practical guide that shows you how to start implementing frequently encountered methods.

Exodus to the Virtual World - How Online Fun Is Changing Reality (Paperback): Edward Castronova Exodus to the Virtual World - How Online Fun Is Changing Reality (Paperback)
Edward Castronova
R493 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality environments (like "World of Warcraft "and "Second Life"), these millions are the start of an exodus into the refuge of fantasy, where they experience life under a new social, political, and economic order built around "fun." Given the choice between a fantasy world and the real world, how many of us would choose reality? "Exodus to the Virtual World" explains the growing migration into virtual reality, and how it will change the way we live--both in fantasy worlds and in the real one.

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality - Myths and Realities (Hardcover): B. Arnaldi Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality - Myths and Realities (Hardcover)
B. Arnaldi
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Virtual and Augmented Reality have existed for a long time but were stuck to the research world or to some large manufacturing companies. With the appearance of low-cost devices, it is expected a number of new applications, including for the general audience. This book aims at making a statement about those novelties as well as distinguishing them from the complexes challenges they raise by proposing real use cases, replacing those recent evolutions through the VR/AR dynamic and by providing some perspective for the years to come.

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk - Cultures of Technological Embodiment (Paperback, New): Mike Featherstone, Roger Burrows Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk - Cultures of Technological Embodiment (Paperback, New)
Mike Featherstone, Roger Burrows
R1,836 Discovery Miles 18 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection explores the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk shows how changing relationships between body and technology offer new arenas for cultural representations. At the same time, the contributors consider the realities of human embodiment and the limits of virtual worlds. Topics examined include technological body modifications, replacements and prosthetics, bodies in cyberspace, virtual environments and cyborg culture, cultural representations of technological embodiment in visual and literary productions, and cyberpunk science fiction as a prefigurative social and cultural theory. Academics and students in cultural studies, popular culture, communication, sociology of culture, philosophy will appreciate this intriguing volume, as will general readers with an interest in the Internet.

Experience on Demand - What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do (MP3 format, CD): Jeremy Bailenson Experience on Demand - What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do (MP3 format, CD)
Jeremy Bailenson; Read by Jeffrey Kafer
R644 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R123 (19%) Out of stock
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