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Semiotyczne aspekty virtual reality
Semiotic aspects of virtual reality

Author(s): Marek Hendrykowski
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology, Recent History (1900 till today), Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: image; semiotics; language of moving pictures; virtual reality; sign; perception;

Summary/Abstract: The dynamic development of virtual reality techniques opened new possibilities of creating visual, audial and audiovisual moving pictures. VR is coming and invading XXIst century cinema. There is a grand challenge for filmmakers imagination: show delivering vision of reality or so-called reality made without using real physical objects. Are we really prepared for this technological revolution? Hendrykowski’s paper poses certain crucial questions connected with that change in making movies. Among them: ambiguous nature of digital sign, possible regions of spectator’s new experiences, symbolic function of digital images and deep transformation of category od aesthetics in expanding world of multimedia.

  • Issue Year: 21/2017
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 259-267
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish