Although virtual reality promises to immerse a person in another world, its true power lies in its ability to sever a person’s spatial situatedness in this one. This is especially clear in Japan, where the VR headset has been embraced as a way to block off existing social environments and reroute perception into more malleable virtual platforms. Is immersion just another name f...(展开全部)

A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it. Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-c...(展开全部)

With the ability to put players directly in the game, virtual reality gives users the chance to experience digital worlds directly. Nevertheless, many designers are unsure where to start when working with this amazing technology.With this book, you will learn user experience design processes and create immersive gameplay experiences designed for entertainment and player comfort. Using the power of Unreal Engine 4’s Blueprint visual scripting language, you will build player interaction and locomotion systems from scratch and use these flexible systems to create a sample game, as well as develop functional 2D and 3D user interfaces for players to interact with. And also learn the best practices for creating game art for virtual reality. Finally, you will learn how to test your application with your target audience and finalize your game for distribution.By the end of this book, you will have the knowledge to be able to make the leap from traditional game development to creating immersive virtual reality experiences using Unreal Engine 4.

With the ability to put players directly in the game, virtual reality gives users the chance to experience digital worlds directly. Nevertheless, many designers are unsure where to start when working with this amazing technology.With this book, you will learn user experience design processes and create immersive gameplay experiences designed for entertainment and player comfort. Using the power of Unreal Engine 4’s Blueprint visual scripting language, you will build player interaction and locomotion systems from scratch and use these flexible systems to create a sample game, as well as develop functional 2D and 3D user interfaces for players to interact with. And also learn the best practices for creating game art for virtual reality. Finally, you will learn how to test your application with your target audience and finalize your game for distribution.By the end of this book, you will have the knowledge to be able to make the leap from traditional game development to creating immersive virtual reality experiences using Unreal Engine 4.

Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or novel? What are the new possibilities for representation offered by the emerging technology of virtual reality? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in Narrative as Virtual Reality, the questions raised by new, interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-elect...(展开全部)

Made in Japan -- Made in Japan—these three simple words conjure playful wit, a delight in detail, formal elegance, and graphic energy. Author of Made in China, Reed Darmon has collected hundreds of images of everyday Japanese design and pop culture ephemera from the past century. Including perfume ads, art deco matchboxes, robot toys, action movie posters, Noh masks, kimono pat...(展开全部)

This is the special edition of "QUOTATION" Worldwide Creative Journal. Reporting on what is happening in the contemporary Japanese creative scene attracts attention from around the world, so for this issue "QUOTATION" have selected people and places from an array of media, and introduce them by category. It doesn't matter whether they are famous or not, the selections are made ...(展开全部)

Every foreign traveler in Japan is delighted by the verdant forest-shrouded mountains that thrust skyward from one end of the island chain to the other. The Japanese themselves are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they sometimes refer to as "the green archipelago." Yet, based on its fragile geography and centuries of extremely dense human occupation, Japan t...(展开全部)

加文·麦考马克（Gavan McCormack），澳大利亚国立大学亚太研究中心教授。近著有《虚幻的乐园》（The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence）、《日本的宪法之争》（Japans Contested Constitution）、《目标：朝鲜——把朝鲜推向核灾难的边缘》（Target North Korea：Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe）等。他还是网络杂志《日本热点》（Japan Focus）的创办者之一。

加文·麦考马克（Gavan McCormack），澳大利亚国立大学亚太研究中心教授。近著有《虚幻的乐园》（The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence）、《日本的宪法之争》（Japans Contested Constitution）、《目标：朝鲜——把朝鲜推向核灾难的边缘》（Target North Korea：Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe）等。他还是网络杂志《日本热点》（Japan Focus）的创办者之一。