Future presence : how virtual reality is changing human connection, intimacy, and the limits of ordinary life / Peter Rubin.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : HarperOne, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st EditionDescription: vi, 281 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062566690 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Virtual reality -- Social aspects | Interpersonal relations | Society | SocietyDDC classification: 302 Summary: A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future 'realities' of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection. Heralded as the most significant technological innovation since the smartphone, virtual reality is poised to transform our very notions of life and humanity. Though this tech is still in its infancy, to those on the inside, it is the future. VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel pleasure and other emotions, how we see ourselves, and most importantly, how we relate to each other in the real world. And we will never be the same.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future 'realities' of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection. Heralded as the most significant technological innovation since the smartphone, virtual reality is poised to transform our very notions of life and humanity. Though this tech is still in its infancy, to those on the inside, it is the future. VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel pleasure and other emotions, how we see ourselves, and most importantly, how we relate to each other in the real world. And we will never be the same.
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