Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality

How augmented actuality and digital actuality are taking their locations in up to date media tradition alongside movie and tv.

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This ebook positions augmented actuality (AR) and digital actuality (VR) firmly in up to date media tradition. The authors view AR and VR not as the most recent hyped applied sciences however as media—the most recent in a sequence of what they time period “actuality media,” taking their locations alongside movie and tv. Actuality media inserts a layer of media between us and our notion of the world; AR and VR don’t substitute actuality however refashion a actuality for us. Every actuality medium mediates and remediates; every affords a brand new illustration that we implicitly examine to our expertise of the world in itself but in addition by different media.

The authors present that as types of actuality media emerge, they not solely chart a future path for media tradition, but in addition redefine media previous. With AR and VR in thoughts, then, we are able to acknowledge their precursors in eighteenth-century panoramas and the Broadway lights of the Nineteen Thirties. A digital model of Actuality Media, out there by the ebook’s web site, invitations readers to go to a sequence of digital rooms that includes interactivity, 3-D fashions, movies, pictures, and texts that discover the themes of the ebook.

Writer ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press (November 16, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262045125
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262045124
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.31 x 0.88 x 9.38 inches