The Visionary Position: The Inside Story of the Digital Dreamers Who Are Making Virtual Reality a Reality
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812928520 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 353 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"For as long as engineers have dreamed of building faster and more powerful computers," writes Fred Moody in his opening to The Visionary Position, "some among them have dreamed of displaying computer-stored and -generated information in three dimensions, with users walking through information landscapes the way they walk down grocery-store aisles and city streets." Chief among these farsighted engineers--and the primary focus of this well-written history of the still-nascent VR industry--is Dr.
A Customer said Useful, but too centered on one group. Overall, quite good. The characterization of Furness seems correct. But the place of the "HIT lab" in VR history is grossly overstated. The original system at VPL, the Autodesk and Sense8 work, and the commercial W Industries system are barely mentioned. Still, any business book that ends with a bankruptcy auction can. A Customer said Disturbing in its utter lack of truth. This book is so full of outright lies and grotesque exageration that one hardly knows where to begin in critiquing it. The author was apparently satisfied to take Furness' word for how things were in the "early days" of VR at Wright-Patt. Too bad. Even a cursory check of the record would have revealed some significant. "Horrible" according to A Customer. I recently finished reading this book and have been following the reviews posted on amazon.com with a lot of interest. Like others who have posted their thoughts, I am also familiar with many of the key people discussed in the book, and I have also been engaged in this area of R&D for quite some time.There are many, m
Thomas A. It is also an important study of the American way of creating and doing business, and of the American technopreneurial character.A Man"Tom Furness--more formally known as Dr. Furness III--is an exotic commodity in the Pacific Northwest. Fred Moody's year at HITL resulted in incredible fly-on-the-wall reporting. It's not surprising, then, that an unholy combination of profit motive and idealism brought together an odd group of people at the HIT lab and the companies it spawned: Virtual i/O, F5 Labs, Microvision, and Zombie Virtual Reality Entertainment. But moving from a dreamy vision to the hard realities of companies operating in t