Virtual reality
by Howard Rheingold · first published 1991
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Explores the social, economic, psychological, and philosophical implications of tomorrow's technology.
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on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2013” ↗…replaced with graphical tools, I thought it would be augmented by them, in a unified, ergonomic package. I thought VR would get going sooner than it did. I was a big fan of Howard Rheingold's 1991 book "Virtual Reality" (a great guide to early VR) and got to try it out in 1993 at a computer exhibition. I used to fantasize about going to VR arcades and playing flight simulators with a bunch of people. Now I do it at…
on “Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?” ↗> such a short period of time. I bought Howard Rheingold's "Virtual Reality" 22 years ago! :-P
on “The Road to Virtual Reality” ↗…from the 1990s. News articles about the CAVE in our building, back in the mid-1990s, used similar holodeck references. (The enthusiasm has been here for decades. See for example Howard Rheingold's 1992 "Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society".)
on “Disruptions: The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape” ↗I remember reading Howard Rheingold's book "Virtual Reality" when it came out almost 30 years ago, and seeing the Alvy Ray Smith (co-founder of Pixar) quote where he claimed that "Reality is 80 million polygons per second" 80 million is nothing nowadays, and…
on “Donald Greenberg: VR is still a baby, we’ll need 20 years for photorealism” ↗