BOX 2.3 WILLIAM GIBSON The man behind the term 'cyberspace', and the acknowledged pioneer of cyberpunk, William Gibson is perhaps the single most influential novelist of the last decades of the twentieth century.
This interdisciplinary volume aims to provoke a new understanding of the important role that computer-generated ”virtual worlds” will play in domains such as science, business, computer games, education, training, and...
Virtual Worlds
Whereas virtual reality has largely concerned itself with the design of 3D immersive graphical spaces, and artificial life with the simulation of living organisms, the field of virtual worlds, is concerned with the synthesis of digital ...
One of the most popular works in this field has been Tierra designed by Tom Ray: an environment producing synthetic organisms based on a computer metaphor of organic life in which CPU time is the “energy” resource and memory is the ...
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016.
Virtual Worlds: The Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Intersections
The series presents core areas for teachers, librarians, and school leaders to consider for 21st century learning which are: the digital world, virtual worlds, curriculum integration, resourcing, and the physical environment.
In Virtual Worlds, Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality.