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Shadow plays : virtual realities in an analog world / Massimo Riva

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: [Stanford, California] : Stanford University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 Online-Ressource : sound, color illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781503629875
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC372
Online resources: Summary: "Shadow Plays explores popular forms of entertainment used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to transport viewers to a new world, foreshadowing present-day virtual, augmented, and extended reality experiences (VR, AR, and XR). Typically studied as part of the prehistory of cinema or the archaeology of media, analog technologies such as the mondo nuovo or cosmorama, the magic lantern, the moving panorama, and the stereoscope evoked shadow copies of our world long before the advent of digital technologies and exercised a powerful pull on minds and imaginations. Through six case histories and eight interactive simulations, Massimo Riva explores themes of virtual travel, social surveillance, and utopian imagination, shedding light on illustrious or, in some instances, forgotten figures and inventions from Italy's past. Arguing for the continuity of experience and imagination, Riva adopts the term virtual realism, an experience marked by the virtualization of the real and the realization of the virtual. At a time when the gap between simulations and "real" experiences is getting ever smaller, a cultural-historical exploration of the prehistory of virtual reality can help us better understand the present in light of the past while exploring the past using the tools forged in the present."--Stanford University PressPPN: PPN: 1916243258Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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