The visionary position
Subtitle: the inside story of the digital dreamers who are making virtual reality a reality
By: Fred Moody.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Times Business
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Furness, Thomas A; Human-computer interaction -- Research -- History; Virtual reality -- Research -- History
Description: "A writer's worm's-eye view of an industry coming into being provides the reader a unique perspective on just why America is the world's capital of progress and innovation. Fred Moody spent a year tracking developments at the center for virtual-reality research, a cluster of Seattle companies formed around the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory, and in The Visionary Position he chronicles the birth of an industry."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: [pt. 1]. Incubation; title: Promises, promises; title: Road to Damascus; title: VR winter; title: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread; title: Soul of a new machinist; title: [pt. 2]. Parturition; title: Buddy, can you paradigm?; title: Elisha Gray Memorial chapter; title: Paradigm downshift; title: Hole in the ground surrounded by liars; title: Visionary position; title: And the earth shall cast out the dead; title: Behold, I am in my anger; title: Sense of an ending; title: [pt. 3]. Postpartum; title: Shoot the inventor.