Envisioning Cyberspace: Designing 3D Electronic Spaces
Envisioning Cyberspace: Designing 3D Electronic Spaces by Peter Anders, published by McGraw-Hill Professional on October 30, 1998, offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between cyberspace and the physical world. This 228-page book delves into the innovative environments that emerge in the realm of virtual reality, highlighting the contributions of various creators, including programmers, designers, and architects. Anders presents a critical examination of how these new digital landscapes influence our cultural and social realities.
Readers will find a thorough discussion of the techniques and technologies that shape cyberspace, along with insights into the unexpected connections between reality and virtuality. The book emphasizes human-centered design principles and the challenges and opportunities that arise in this evolving field. With its focus on computers and civilization, computer-aided design, and the broader implications of cyberspace, this edition serves as a valuable resource for designers, architects, and anyone interested in the dynamic relationship between the real and the virtual.
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Free of the constraints of physical form and limited only by imagination, new environments spring to life daily in a fantastic realm called cyberspace. The creators of this new virtual world may be programmers, designers, architects, even children. In this invigorating exploration of the juncture between cyberspace and the physical world, architect Peter Anders brings together leading-edge cyberspace art and architecture … inspiring new techniques and technologies … unexpected unions of reality and virtuality … and visions of challenges and opportunities as yet unexplored. More than an invitation to tour fantastic realms and examine powerful tools, this book is a hard-eyed look at cyberspace’s impact on physical, cultural, and social reality, and the human-centered principles of its design. This is a book that will set designers and architects thinkingÑand a work of importance to anyone fascinated with the fast-closing space between the real and the virtual.
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