In his book «Dawn of the New Everything» Jaron Lanier, often called the father of VR, wrote that the question he was most asked in the 1980s was to which degree VR was similar to LSD. Not a psychonaut himself, however, Lanier was not necessarily…
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N.B: This post is the third and final post in a series on VR metaphysics; the entries comment upon a metaphysical stand towards VR technology. The two previous posts that precede this one, are linked here: 1) “On Mediums of Abstraction and Transparency“, and 2)…
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N.B: This post is the second out of three, in a series that comments upon a metaphysical stand towards VR technology. More specifically, it deals with the philosophy of Heidegger in relation to Virtual Reality. The first post, preceding this one, is “On Mediums of…
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N.B: This blog post is the first of three posts in a series that comments upon a metaphysical stand towards Virtual Reality technology. The posts following these as the second and third, are “Heidegger’s Virtual Reality” and “The Mind as Medium“. 1/3 Technology, in all…
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