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Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality (English Edition) Kindle版
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal & Vox
‘The father of virtual reality’ (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ultimate test for humanity.
‘Essential reading, not just for VR-watchers but for anyone interested in how society came to be how it is, and what it might yet become’ Economist
Welcome to a mind-expanding, life-enhancing, world-changing adventure.
Virtual reality has long been one of the dominant clichés of science fiction. Now virtual reality isa reality: from the startling beauty of lifelike video games to the place where war veterans overcome PTSD, surgeries are trialled, and aircraft and cities are designed. VR is, in fact now, the most effective device ever invented for researching what a human being actually is – and how we think and feel.
More than thirty years ago, legendary computer scientist, visionary and artist Jaron Lanier pioneered its invention. Here he blends scientific investigation, philosophical thought experiment and his memoir of a life lived at the centre of digital innovation to explain what VR really is: the science of comprehensive illusion; the extension of the intimate magic of earliest childhood into adulthood; a hint of what life would be like without any limits.
We are standing on the threshold of an entirely new realm of human creativity, expression, communication and experience, and as we use VR to test our relationship with reality, it may test us in return.
‘Vivid and absolutely extraordinary’ Evening Standard
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- ASIN : B01F9BE57I
- 出版社 : Vintage Digital (2017/11/16)
- 発売日 : 2017/11/16
- 言語 : 英語
- ファイルサイズ : 15620 KB
- Text-to-Speech(テキスト読み上げ機能) : 有効
- X-Ray : 有効にされていません
- Word Wise : 有効
- 付箋メモ : Kindle Scribeで
- 本の長さ : 356ページ
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Der Sprachstil ist eher bis sehr locker - was gut zum Autor passt.
Wer zudem noch Biografien mag, ist hier bestens aufgehoben. "Great read" würde man im Englischen sagen!



Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier is a cool dude and one of the godfathers of virtual reality. A thinker and an entrepreneur. The book reads like a road trip and reminds me of “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance”. The type of questions he asks are; What is left of you when you can change virtually everything about your body and the world? What will VR do to consciousness and reality?
We are awesome
I don’t know enough about AR, VR or XR, but he strikes me as a voice of reason. Makes you again realise how wondrous and complex we are as human beings. Our skin, our brains, our eyes, our nervous system are way beyond a mix of cameras (eyes), microphones (ears), sensors (skin) and a computer (brain).
Can technology catch up?
It is going to be interesting where exponential developments in math, medicine, physics, journalism, art, cognitive science, government, business, cinema, computer science, biology, neurology, nano, AI, cultural studies, sensor physics, advanced algorithms, industrial product design, aesthetics, etc. is going to bring it, but the impacts are profound. Our human nervous system benefits from hundreds of millions of years of evolution and can tune itself to the quantum limit of reality. Let’s see if technology can catch up.
We are very clever
Jaron thinks that our brains are too clever for that to ever happen. Our eyes, the feedback from our expressions, tongue, taste, muscles, tendons, skin, ears, nose, and the overlap those senses together. Our whole body is a feedback mechanism and we have a long way to go before you can imitate the drop of a snowflake on your skin or the hug of your child.
Music instruments
Music instruments show the way, They provide a haptic channel across centuries and continents, like writing, but less symbolic and far more intimate. The size of the muscle groups you use is deeply connected to the rhythms you’ll tend to play. Not only are instruments the best haptic interfaces yet invented, they are the best interfaces of any kind if what we care about is the potential for mastery and expressiveness. Instruments show what’s possible; how far computer science must go before we can call it even a beginning. How would you record haptics? Can we? Will we?
The impact of VR
What VR does do is get the user involved in a big way with an impact on consciousness, emotions and behaviour. Which has its dangers. In “The Seventh Sense” the author asks would we know if AI had taken over. Control someone’s reality and you control the person. VR could become your Skinner box and your own 3D filter bubble.
Transform
What VR can also do is transform you into anything you want to be. It can make you move like a shark, have 2 extra arms, be a giant, whatever. Haptic illusions can create sensations that seem to come from outside the body. Some suggest it has to do with DNA memory of all the animals we were before we became human (think about that!). It is called the phylogenetic tree.
Attention pilots
Jason Silva calls VR empathy machines or attention pilots. Maybe VR should not be about simulating reality, really, but about stimulating neural expectations. About noticing experience itself. About a new approach to information. About feeling your consciousness in its pure form. Digital LSD? Lucid dreaming? Dream sharing? VR as instrumentation to explore motor cortex intelligence.
Ways to use VR
VR is amazing at conveying complexity with lucidity. VR is the place where you become a molecule. Where you learn to think like a molecule. Your brain is waiting for the chance. You could use VR to check by breathing in deeply and watching them expand. Same for your beating heart. VR could amplify empathy. People would really see the awfulness of pollution, violence, of war, and would not be able to stomach it.
Utopia
Utopia. Peace would ensue. We shall see. The more intense a communication technology is, the more intensely it can be used to lie.
Classics
Loved it. With references to all the classics, such a “The Manchurian Candidate”,“Lawnmower man”, “Neuromancer”, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, with a few new terms (for me) such as synthetic reality, artificial presence, artificial reality, virtual environments, telepresence, tele-existence, mixed reality and of course cyberspace.
Infinite possibility
To boldly go. Read “Infinite Possibility” I am betting Jaron Lanier did.
