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One Thing About Virtual Reality That Everyone Should Remember

September 23, 2015 minterest Social Media

You might think it's annoying when people stare at their smartphones, but just wait until they have screens strapped to their faces. If Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg is to be believed — and hey, he's been right about this stuff before — virtual reality may be the next major evolution in consumer technology. Many of the biggest players in computing

Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview

March 17, 2013 minterest Web App

Jaron Lanier is that rarest of rare birds – an uber-geek who is highly critical of the world created by the technology he helped to create. Now in his 50s, he first came to prominence in the 1980s as a pioneer in the field of "virtual reality" – the development of computer-generated environments in which real people could interact. Ever

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Computing, Internet, Jaron Lanier, science, Technology, Tim Berners-Lee, Web 2.0