“Life as we have known it, including the memories that our lives have
formed, will be forever changed as the ‘virtual’ and the ‘real’ become
increasingly indistinguishable. Perhaps memories and dreams will become one.”
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In virtual Reality (VR) the still passive aspect
of watching a screen is replaced by total immersion into a world whose reality exists
contemporaneously with one’s own.
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The term Virtual Reality refers to a
three-dimensional experience in which a user with the help of head-mounted
displays, data gloves or body suits experiences a simulated world that appears
to a respond to the users movements.
o Example
is the Legible City by Jeffrey Shaw 1990:
A bicycle is placed in the midst of three large projection screens and as the
viewers pedals, he or she takes a ride through a virtual recreation of
Manhattan, Amsterdam or Karlsruche.
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Outside the text Examples:
In about Looking 1980
John Breger asked: (Take a minute and answer these questions in the
comments)
1.
What served in place of photographed before the
camera’s invention?
2.
What we might now ask will be the content of
memory if we can no longer distinguish simulated events and experiences from
‘real’ ones?
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