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Being Really Virtual

Immersive Natives and the Future of Virtual Reality

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Authors:
  1. Frank Steinicke

    1. Human-Computer Interaction Research Group, Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Provides a popular scientific and technological view to the past and present of virtual reality (VR)
  • Discusses possible futures of virtual worlds
  • Explores the scientific, technological and social challenges of VR
  • Presents the first empirical study about long-term usage of immersive technology
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Past: Background and Motivation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Glance into the Future

      • Frank Steinicke
      Pages 3-18

    3. The Science and Fiction of the Ultimate Display

      • Frank Steinicke
      Pages 19-32

    4. Toward a Virtual Revolution

      • Frank Steinicke
      Pages 33-44

  3. The Present: Research and Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Scientific, Technological, and Social Challenges

      • Frank Steinicke
      Pages 47-57

    3. Unlimited Walking: One Small Step for a Man

      • Frank Steinicke
      Pages 59-88

    4. First Steps Toward Being Really Virtual

      • Frank Steinicke
      Pages 89-106

    5. To Touch or Not to Touch?

      • Frank Steinicke
      Pages 107-124

  4. The Future: Ethics and Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. More and More, and More than Moore’s Law

      • Frank Steinicke
      Pages 127-143

    3. Anarchy, Principles, and Rules

      • Frank Steinicke
      Pages 145-153

    4. The Coming Age of Next Realities

      • Frank Steinicke
      Pages 155-163

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 165-166
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About this book

This book focuses on the recent developments of virtual reality (VR) and immersive technologies, what effect they are having on our modern, digitised society and explores how current developments and advancements in this field are leading to a virtual revolution.

Using Ivan Sutherland's ‘The Ultimate Display’ and Moore’s law as a springboard, the author discusses both popular scientific and technological accounts of the past, present and possible futures of VR, looking at current research trends, developments, challenges and ethical considerations to the coming age of differing realities.

Being Really Virtual is for researchers, designers and developers of VR and immersive technologies and anyone with an interest in the exponential rise of such technologies and how they are changing the very way we perceive, interact and communicate within our digital society.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Human-Computer Interaction Research Group, Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Frank Steinicke

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Being Really Virtual

  • Book Subtitle: Immersive Natives and the Future of Virtual Reality

  • Authors: Frank Steinicke

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43078-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43076-8Published: 01 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82732-2Published: 22 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43078-2Published: 22 October 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 166

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Graphics

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