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Strange Days

Author: Kathryn Bigelow
Year: 1995 Edit Add
Book: Remediation

Strange Days captures the ambivalent and contradictory ways in which new digital media function for our culture today. The film projects our own cultural moment a few years into the future in order to examine that moment with greater clarity.

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A virtual reality head-mounted display

Author: Larry Hodges
Year: 1995 Edit Add
Book: Remediation

The contemporary head-mounted display of virtual reality is considerably less comfortable and fashionable (fig.I.1), and the visual world it generates is far less compelling.

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Info: Larry Hodges (right) demonstrates his VR program for desensitizing people to things they fear. The program has proved highly effective.
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Info: A virtual reality head-mounted display. Courtesy of Professor Larry Hodges, GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
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