The most important error [generally committed] is the reduction of reality to actuality and virtuality to possibility: as if the actual and the virtual were the given and the pre-given, respectively” (Doel & Clarke, 1999) From since the 1970s computers have opened new ways of virtualization where the human brain is assisted in forecasting extremely complicated, and even inherently complex systems. At the beginning of the 1990s the commercialization of the internet as an international network determined the popularization and incorporation of virtuality into every aspect of modern life, creating a pervasive cyberspace. This paper presents a collection of meanings of the term "virtuality" and develops, though the implications in representation and interaction, how virtuality plays a central role in current polytechnic research. In other words, we present virtuality both as the property of things that are not actual, and as the realm of invention and potential that the architect, the designer and the engineer share when they work. 1. Introduction The term “virtuality” is an antonym to “actuality” and it comes form the latin virtutue, which can be translated to virtue, a quality, valued as moral, that also expresses potential. In part Virtuality is the world of potential: a virtual space where design takes place, and where reality is not actual but expressed and represented by human mediation [1]. French philosopher Jean Beudrillard theorized that virtuality is naturally produced by humans as they try to understand reality: as humans can only interprete one object through comparison with other objects, says Beudrillard, the observers can only relate to its signification (from the latin signum ficare: to make a sign) and they eventua... ... middle of paper ... ...pace". 2009 WIRED. [12] Zhai P., Get Real: A Philosophical Adventure in Virtual Reality [13] David C., Crang M., Crang P., May J., Virtual Geographies. Bodies, space and relations, London: Routledge (1999). [14] Morgan, M., Morrison, M. Models as mediators: perspectives on natural and social science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK [15] Strogatz, S., "The End of Insight", in Brockman, John, What is your dangerous idea?, HarperCollins, (2007) [16] Neale M., William Gibson: No Maps For These Territories (2003) Documentary [17] Meadows D., Meadows D., Randers J., Behrens W., The Limits to growth [18] Bogost, I., Ferrari, S., & Schweizer, B. (2010). Newsgames: Journalism at play. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Jenkins, H. (2006) [19] Putnik G.D., Cunha M.M., Virtual enterprise integration. In Idea Group. 2005 [20] Norman D, The Design of Future Things
William Gibson's Idoru is a novel thick with implications and extrapolations related to the oncoming and (present) age of electronic para-reality. Stylistically, it is far from perfect, but in theme it has a firm grasp on the concept of the simulacra as it mimics, masks and replaces reality.
Creswell explores the notion of place by looking at David Harvey’s view in ‘From Space to Place and Back Again’, and comparing it to Doreen Massey’s view of place in ‘A Global Sense of Place’, 1994. These chapters were published in the 90s, an era of rapid globalization that resulted in homogenization and cultural imperialism.
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Supports of virtual reality say that it will bring people around the world closer together and change the nature of communication. While others believe it will be used by people to avoid real-life troubles and they will withdraw into the online world. (Anon., n.d.)
The term Virtual Reality (VR) is used by many different people with many meanings. There are some people to whom VR is a specific collection of technologies, that is a Head Mounted Display, Glove Input Device and Audio. Some other people stretch the term to include conventional books, movies or pure fantasy and imagination. However, for purposes of this research, we restrict VR to computer mediated systems. We would define Virtual Reality as a way for humans to visualize, manipulate and interact with computers and extremely complex data.
Virtual reality is different from videos that we watch on screen because video only shows a two-dimensional image, videos are just like pictures that keep moving to another picture. Virtual reality is different; virtual reality does not only show pictures also embodies pictures. It is like we are not only watching movies, we are also in the movies. With this new technology, humans can simulate anything that might have been impossible to be possible. However, the foundation
This subject was suggested as a possible topic from the course outline. As it is an area of much interest and controversy was chosen as the direction of study for the paper. Previous research into Virtual Reality (VR), coupled with a particular interest in its architectural application also proved motivating. However, although the direction of the initial research appeared straightforward, after further investigation it became obvious that there were in fact two distinctly different interpretations that could be drawn from the area of Virtualism in Architecture. This division was between whether VR was used FOR architecture (VR used as a tool to aid in architectural design). Or whether it was used AS architecture (architectural design within the world of VR). Therefore this paper will be divided into two sections, each discussing the two different ideas with the aim of applying a necessary critical perspective.
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Virtual art is the product of long-standing traditions in art merged with revolutionary technological advances. With innovations emerging almost as fast as end-users can test and master new systems, technology has dramatically altered our daily lives and changed our thought processes. Like many technological advances, virtual and cyber realities have been embraced, and often created by, artists that experiment with the myriad of possibilities that technology can offer. While there have been many works of art inspired and created by means of digital advances, the medium has yet to be defined and its boundaries have not yet been identified. Since technology and virtual art are just beginning to be explored, the medium is in its infancy and thus cannot be judged based upon traditional mores of art. Before virtual art can achieve prominence and respect within the art world, many barriers of tradition must first be abolished.
In Conclusion William Gibson created a cyberpunk/ postmodernism tale that has blurred not only the physical state between mechanics and human anatomy, but has as well blurred the line between the natural and virtual world. He is making the reader contemplate how both software and hardware have influenced the natural world. Gibson’s fictional world would have not been possible without the existence of software and hardware, that is why the distinction between them is very crucial and play a different part within the text. Without these two things, the reader would not be able to comprehend and relate to Gibson’s view on how our society is interlocking with the advances of technology and the normality of today will no longer exist in the future.
Virtual reality can be defined as a, "technology that enables users to enter computer generated worlds and interface with them three dimensionally through sight, sound, and touch" (Newquist 93). Virtual reality combines computer simulation and visualization into a single, coherent whole (Peterson 8). Researchers say it embodies an attempt to eliminate the traditional distinction between the user and the machine. Virtual reality is intended to provide a means of naturally and intelligently interacting with information (8). Virtual reality is contending to be the interface of the future, allowing ordinary users to use their senses to interact with complex data.
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Definition of virtual reality is "A technology that assures participants that he was actually in another place by replacing the main sensory input with data received by the computer" [6] [10]. One of the key elements of the virtual reality of cyberspace; it is a space fantasy or simulation environment. Which is always linked here is a virtual world and immersion virtual reality, perception is born into the world of alternatives such as ethereal or other point of view of our world
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