by Howard Rheingold (Author)
Imagine being able to "walk" into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it's science fact. Surgeons now rehearse operations on computer-generated "virtual" patients, and architects "walk through" virtual buildings while the actual structures are still in blueprints. In Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold takes us to the front lines of this revolutionary new technology that creates computer-generated worlds complete with the sensations of touch and motion, and explores its impact on everything from entertainment to particle physics.
Author Biography
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.
Number of Pages: 416
Dimensions: 1.05 x 8 x 6.32 IN
Publication Date: August 15, 1992
