Virtual Reality
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Worlds on a Wire November 01, 2024
“Virtual reality” is an oxymoron, of course. That was one of the criticisms of the term back in the 1980s, when the question of what to call the slightly ludicrous assemblages of head-mounted screens and sensors then being developed, and the experien...
The VR and AR Arms Race April 18, 2024
You probably don’t remember the Humane Pin, despite its dominating the tech-news cycle a few months ago.It’s an elegant AI-powered square that sticks to your lapel and can send messages, search for information and tell you about what you’re seeing, a...
Life in the Metaverse November 24, 2022
Virtual Reality—be it Star Trek’s Holodeck or Ready Player One headsets—is an old staple of the imagined future. Pop on a headset and you can visit anywhere you like, real or fantastical. Want to walk around first-century Pompeii? See inside an atom?...
On Minds in Simulated Worlds February 21, 2022
Over the past two and a half decades, David Chalmers has established himself not only as one of the leading figures in Anglophone philosophy of mind, but also as the theorist who has done the most to bring the discipline into the public sphere withou...
