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The fantasies that underpin common perceptions of Virtual Reality--and what we need to know about VR's potential risks as well as its opportunities. Virtual reality is the next new frontier for Silicon Valley. Mark Zuckerberg, who has overseen Meta's investment of billions into VR, pitches it as the next dominant computing paradigm. More than just a gaming technology, VR is top of mind for academics, tech reportage, and industry evangelists who all see the potential for VR to revolutionize fields such as education and health, as well as the way we work and communicate. But will VR achieve all this? In Fantasies of Virtual Reality, Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston strip bare the tech industry's vision of a future dominated by immersive VR experiences, challenging the utopian promises of this technology's potential. Carter and Egliston offer a critical account of VR in a variety of contexts, from gaming to human resources to policing and the military. They argue that while VR does hold significant potential, the overhyped expectations surrounding it, from achieving true empathetic understanding to transforming traditional education and office work, are often overstated and fraught with issues of privacy, control, and exclusion. What's more, there is nothing truly virtual about virtual reality: VR is deeply entrenched in the material world, driven by tangible technological, economic, and social logics. An accessible introduction to this emerging technology, Fantasies of Virtual Reality is essential reading for anyone interested in what VR can really do--and what is just plain fantasy.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
虛擬實境背後的幻想——以及我們需要了解的虛擬實境的潛在風險和機會。
虛擬實境是矽谷的下一個新前沿。馬克·祖克柏（Mark Zuckerberg）監督著Meta對虛擬實境的數十億投資，並將其推銷為下一個主導的計算範式。虛擬實境不僅僅是一種遊戲技術，對於學術界、科技報導和行業傳道者來說，虛擬實境都是當前的熱點，他們都看到了虛擬實境在教育、健康以及我們的工作和溝通方式上顛覆性的潛力。但虛擬實境真的能實現這一切嗎？在《虛擬實境的幻想》中，馬庫斯·卡特（Marcus Carter）和本·埃格利斯頓（Ben Egliston）揭示了科技產業對未來沉浸式虛擬實境體驗的願景，挑戰了這項技術潛力的烏托邦承諾。
卡特和埃格利斯頓在多種情境中對虛擬實境進行了批判性的分析，從遊戲到人力資源，再到執法和軍事。他們認為，儘管虛擬實境確實具有重要潛力，但圍繞它的過度期待，從實現真正的同理理解到改變傳統教育和辦公工作，往往被誇大，並伴隨著隱私、控制和排斥等問題。此外，虛擬實境並不是真正的虛擬：虛擬實境深深根植於物質世界，受到具體的技術、經濟和社會邏輯的驅動。
《虛擬實境的幻想》是對這一新興技術的易懂介紹，對於任何對虛擬實境真正能做什麼以及哪些只是純粹幻想的人來說，都是必讀之作。
作者簡介
Marcus Carter is Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He is the author of Treacherous Play and the coauthor of Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons[KAC1] (both MIT Press). Ben Egliston is Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
馬庫斯·卡特是悉尼大學人機互動的教授，也是澳大利亞研究委員會的未來研究員。他是《危險的遊戲》的作者，並且是《龍與地下城五十年》的共同作者（均由麻省理工學院出版社出版）。
本·埃格利斯頓是悉尼大學數位文化的講師，也是澳大利亞研究委員會的DECRA研究員。
