CCT314H5 Lecture Notes - Paraplegia, Virtual Reality, Existenz
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Everything that can be an object of our internal perception is virtual, like the image produced in a telescope in a telescope by the passage of light-rays. Man with a movie camera (1929: already people manipulated images to create special effects": not reality as it was. Defining virtual reality: 1) virtual reality refers to an electronic system which is designed to create a simulated environment around the viewer, 2) an illusion created by computer hard-ware and software that fools users into thinking. De lauretis they are somewhere else existenz (1999) A reflection of the new technologies of postmodernity information, communication, and biotechnologies and new interactive media (de lauretis, 2003, 547) Major theme of vr: virtual reality is most effective when it becomes confused with reality". Avartar (2009: virtual reality is most effective when it becomes confused with reality" (seegert, he goes native" abandoning the military humans.