Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do [Paperback]

If you want to understand the most immersive new communications medium to come along since cinema& Id suggest starting with Mr. Bailensons [book].  An accessible introduction [and] a cogent primer to the potential and pitfalls of VR. Excellent.& A fascinating journey. Few people alive know as much about VR as Jeremy Bailenson. For decades hes been researching how VR affects humans. Read this before you enter this new world. [Bailensons] enthusiasm is contagious, and he explains complex issues to an audience broader than fellow scientists, providing a real vision of our possibly VR-infused future. Virtual reality is changing the way athletes train. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand and hone performance through VR. Jeremy Bailensons work is unflinching and brave. He helps us see more of our vulnerabilities and our potential than ever before. This book describes the edge of human self-knowledge, and a precipice of human foibles to avoid. Bailenson provides a clarifying framework for a necessary conversation about what it will mean to be there in the twenty-first century. Read this to calibrate the ethical and moral choices ahead. As one of VRs pioneers, Jeremy Bailenson sheds light on how it works, its benefits, and how it will impact us in the future. Nobody has thought longer or deeper than Jeremy Bailenson about how VR will affect society. He takes us on an entertaining tour of what it can do, from giving children thrilling educational experiences to teaching the public about climate change to enhancing the storytelling powers of filmmakers and journalists. What is virtual reality? Everyone is talking about it but very few have really indulged in artistic and well-crafted simulations. Jeremy Bailenson takes you beyond the hype and into the profound and empathic ways VR is enhancing every facet of life& from how we communicate to how we are entertained. A must-read for anyone who is curious about the world we live in. US