EAN: 9780262045124

REALITY MEDIA - JAY DAVID BOLTER MARIA ENGBERG ...

How augmented reality and virtual reality are taking their places in contemporary media culture
alongside film and television. T This book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality
(VR) firmly in contemporary media culture. The authors view AR and VR not as the latest hyped
technologies but as media-the latest in a series of what they term reality media  taking their
places alongside film and television. Reality media inserts a layer of media between us and our
perception of the world  AR and VR do not replace reality but refashion a reality for us. Each
reality medium mediates and remediates  each offers a new representation that we implicitly
compare to our experience of the world in itself but also through other media. The authors show
that as forms of reality media emerge  they not only chart a future path for media culture  but
also redefine media past. With AR and VR in mind  then  we can recognize their precursors in
eighteenth-century panoramas and the Broadway lights of the 1930s. A digital version of Reality
Media  available through the book's website  invites readers to visit a series of virtual rooms
featuring interactivity  3-D models  videos  images  and texts that explore the themes of the
book.

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