Are We Still in the Game? – An Anthology on Virtual Reality

Triggered by developments in the field of interactive digital media – we recall cyberguru Jaron Lanier’s famous Dataglove – the vision of a second reality appeared within reach in the 1990s.More ...

The desire to betake oneself to a parallel world through prayer, fasting, dancing, meditation or taking drugs appears to be as old as humanity itself.More ...

For centuries, mirrors served in folk tales and novels as a place of transition into a magical parallel world. In the twentieth century, television screens took over this function.More ...

As early as in the fifth century B.C. the Greek thinkers Democritus and Xenophanes established that our perception is illusory.More ...

“Cinema aims to see reality, but it also aims to see what goes beyond it,” writes film critic Georg Seeßlen. Cinema has always been the ideal place for illusions.More ...

What is it that is fascinating about virtual worlds? What is that makes us spend hours on end in the illusory spaces presented by the media?More ...

Virtual reality has quite a number of historical forerunners. People have always had an urge to immerse into other worlds.More ...