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Jeremy Bailenson,Jim Blascovich

Infinite Reality

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“Enough with speculation about our digital future. Infinite Reality is the straight dope on what is and isn’t happening to us right now, from two of the only scientists working on the boundaries between real life and its virtual extensions.”—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed
How achievable are the virtual experiences seen in The Matrix, Tron, and James Cameron’s Avatar? Do our brains know where “reality” ends and “virtual” begins? In Infinite Reality, Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson, two pioneering experts in the field of virtual reality, reveal how the human brain behaves in virtual environments and examine where radical new developments in digital technology will lead us in five, fifty, and five hundred years.
Social AspectsTechnology & EngineeringVirtual & Augmented RealityComputers
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380 printed pages
Publication year
2011
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    SO WHAT?
    The results of these and other virtual-reality studies demonstrate that virtual behavior is, in fact, “real.” In so many facets of social behavior, ranging from financial decisions and the way blood flows through the body, to the manner people stand in a room, people use the same template they use in grounded reality and apply it to agents and avatars in virtual reality
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      For example, the interpersonal distance rules in American culture tend to involve greater distances than those in other countries. The United States is a country that likes its space. Indeed, many of its citizens become uncomfortable when a stranger from another culture comes too near.
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        WHEN THE TWO OF US INITIALLY BECAME COLLEAGUES AT THE RESEARCH Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the late 1990s, one of the tasks we faced was to prove the value of using virtual reality to perform social psychology experiments
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