Hardcover: 360 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press; Rev Sub edition (January 17, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262072416
ISBN-13: 978-0262072410
The computer’s ability to immerse a user in virtual image spaces “is not the revolutionary innovation its protagonists are fond of interpreting it to be,” Grau writes. “The idea of virtual reality only appears to be without a history; in fact, it rests firmly on historical art traditions.” Grau (lecturer in art history at Humboldt University in Berlin, associate professor at the Kunstuniversit