The Emergence and Characteristics of Virtual Worlds
Alycia de Mesa · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2009
The programmer looks down at his hands and scans his arms and torso … they’ve been rendered. In a split second he realizes that his entire body is morphed into a seamless integration with the computer animated screen. He’s not just playing the game, he’s a part of the game. And what’s more he can control the outcome of it, shaping his own world, his own experience and own destiny.