Dawn of the New Everything · Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Lanier, Jaron -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Acknowledgments PREFACE: Virtual Reality’s Moment INTRODUCTION

What Is It? What Can a Book Do That VR Can’t, at Least as Yet? How to Read This Book Meeting My Younger Self

1. 1960s: TERRORS OF EDEN

Border Window Trifecta Mood Spun Beyond Recall Sound Outlasting Cruelty First Experiment Burned

2. RESCUE SPACECRAFT

Landed Where in the Universe? Whence Permission Build Habitat

3. BATCH PROCESS

From Atoms to Bits and Back Again Access The Nasty Bits Goats Pixels in Real Life Stacks Prize Pestering Strangers About Ivan

4. WHY I LOVE VR (ABOUT THE BASICS)

The Mirror Reveals Verb Not Noun A Vice to Avoid The Technology of Noticing Oneself

5. BUG IN THE SYSTEM (ABOUT THE DARK SIDE OF VR)

Paranoid Android Terror Equation Bipolar Bits

6. ROAD

Dome Done Film Flam First Time in the City Down Spiral Back in Flames Aztec Outpost; Wheels Inquests Consensus and Sensibility

7. COAST

Casual Enrollment City on a Pill Rainbow’s Gravity Protogoogle Audience Transcript

8. VALLEY OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS

El Paso del Cyber Optimal Us, and Them Finite and Infinite Games Loop Skywalker You Have to Get Awfully Weird to Avoid Becoming a Behaviorist Grounded A Club That Would Have Me as a Member Code Culture

9. ALIEN ENCOUNTERS

The Essential Bug Rent-a-Mom Young Guru of Loneliness Realization Despite Myself Math Against Loneliness?

10. THE FEELING OF IMMERSION

Woman as Social Stem Cell Impossible Objects Triptych Reality Engine Engine Much Touch Haptic Antics

11. TO DON THE NEW EVERYTHING (ABOUT HAPTICS WITH A LITTLE ABOUT AVATARS)

Blind Bind Hand-Waving Demo; Digital Interface Passive Haptics Bearing Arms Haptic Lemonade First VR Consumer Product Interspecies Gastric Haptics Octopus Butler Robot Lick the Problem Deepest Time Machine Haptic Intelligence As If One Obsession Wasn’t Enough Harm and Heal

12. NAUTICAL DAWN

Other Sighs Other Everythings The Previous Everything Stim City Legitimacy, Hair, a Giant’s Shoulder Dixie-Futurism Ants on a Mission On Track

13. SIX DEGREES (A LITTLE ABOUT SENSORS AND VR DATA)

The Eyes Must Wander The Brain Integrates A Moving Experience Sea Legs, Virtual Legs Virtual Realism Versus Virtual Idealism

14. FOUND

Bite Before Hook Peanut Sauce Gallery Dotted Lines Round Horizon Deputy Top Suit Footprint We Shipped!

15. BE YOUR OWN PYRAMIDION (ABOUT VISUAL DISPLAYS FOR VR)

Remembering the EyePhone That Thing on Your Head When to Take a Pass The Ridiculous Mistake That Floats in the Air All Around Us A Gadget Spectrum The Inner Extreme on the Spectrum The Outer Extreme Scope is the Thing with Feathers Étendue The Duplex Problem

16. THE VPL EXPERIENCE

In-Spiral Veeple What VR Was For Surgical Training Tradewinds A Few of Our American Projects Soldiers and Spooks Characters Spin-Offs

17. INSIDE-OUT SPHERES (A LITTLE ABOUT VR “VIDEO” AND SOUND)

VideoSphere AudioSphere

18. SCENE

Demolition The Art of the Demo The Art of the World Advice for VR Designers and Artists Flags Planted Moniker on the Loose The Party Ricochet la Femme Dark Lineage Flattering Mirror

19. HOW WE SETTLED INTO A SEED FOR THE FUTURE

Virtual Rights, but Not Virtual Economic Rights The Easy Road to World Domination Microgravity The Invisible Hand Improves When It Is Made Visible, as an Avatar Hand Birth of a Religion Love the Work, Not the Myth Alien Virtual Reality

20. 1992, OUT

MicroCosm VR, Trapped in the Movies Voluminous Possibilities Lost In Slickness and in Stealth The Sound of One Hand The End of One Finite Game

21. CODA: REALITY’S FOIL AFTERWORD APPENDIX ONE: POSTSYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION (ABOUT THE REVERIES OF ONE OF MY CLASSIC VR TALKS)

More Transcript Kind of Blue Speak, Tentacles! Poïesis Fascination Versus Suicide Rue Goo

APPENDIX TWO: PHENOTROPIC FEVERS (ABOUT VR SOFTWARE)

Mandatory Metamorphosis Grace Picture This Sleight Editor and Mapping Variation Phenotropic Trial Run Scale Motivation Role Reversal Expression The Wisdom of Imperfection Resilience Adapt Swing Rubble Fills Plato’s cave Many Caves, Many Shadows, but Only Your Eyes

APPENDIX THREE: DUELING DEMIGODS

Not Artificial, but Imaginary The Banality of Weightlessness The Invisible Hand on a Multitouch Screen The Absurdity of Demanding That AI Fix Itself The Humane Use of Human Systems

Notes

Notes: Preface Notes 1 Notes 2 Notes 3 Notes 4 Notes 5 Notes 6 Notes 7 Notes 8 Notes 9 Notes 10 Notes 11 Notes 12 Notes 13 Notes 14 Notes 15 Notes 16 Notes 17 Notes 18 Notes 19 Notes 20 Notes 21 Notes 22 Notes 23 Notes 24

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