cybercraze

cybercraze

Date: 
13.02.1995 16:00
Edition: 
1999
Format: 
Presentation
Location: 
Podewil

Artificial people are becoming virtual idols, countless virtual communities, that is to say interest groups, are popping up in the Cyberspace of the global networks. TV moderators work in virtual studios, engineers inspect virtual production models, and it goes on and on. More and more fields in industry and science, art, commerce and the media favour virtual reality technology. Is Virtual Reality nothing more than a fashionable trend? Where does the concrete benefit of VR lie? Where do artificial realities make sense at all? For some even wonder, whether it is necessary to reproduce the reality in a computer at all. Even more serious is the question, what effect has the increasingly “virtualizing" of the world on our understanding of societal, shared rea­ lity. Some people are already worrying that the absolute ability to do anything in the virtual space presents uncontrollable consequences for the contact with the “real Reality" (RR). On the other hand, VR has already strongly modified the per­ ceptions of all realities and helps to broaden the general ability for realization. Finally, there are philosophical bases which also represent RR, the reality surrounding us,as partially a virtual one.

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