A 4-d CAD model has been created of the human body. A 4-d model simply relies on a layering system through which different sets of information can be isolated. VR caves, which I've seen in lectures about architectural modeling, use anamorphic projection on the surfaces of a small room to immerse a subject; like a panorama, baroque architectural painting, or in a simulator. Also, this is a bizarre image.via Science Daily.
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Reminds me of this and a book I read about VR back in 1992 (which I can't parse out of the net at the moment due to the volume of VR books written in the mid to late 90s) in which the author went over a number of very useful applications for said tech (imaging, telepresence, etc.), but admitted in the end that the only question other members of the media wanted to ask him when they found out that he was writing a book about VR was "Can you use it to have sex yet?"
Was it Michael Heim,author of "The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality"? I might have talked at you, or leant you that book back in '95 or '96; as I had just read it.
It's pretty much a technological rumination mixed in with some lightweight Continental philosophy. Just the kind of thing I'd go for.
Maybe lightweight is too harsh a word. It's written for the layman; not philosophy PhDs. That's all.
Was it Michael Heim,author of "The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality"? I might have talked at you, or leant you that book back in '95 or '96; as I had just read it.
Nope. I it was a pop-tech overview in the style of an old Wired magazine. Nothing to do with metaphysics, just nuts n' bolts.
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