| 单词 | hyper-world |
| 释义 | > as lemmashyper-world In extended use: forming chiefly temporary or nonce-words relating (sometimes tangentially) to computers and the internet, or to associated social and cultural phenomena; computer-mediated, existing in virtual reality; augmented, enhanced, or made possible by the use of virtual reality technology, as hyperlearning, hyper-sexuality, hyper-world, etc. Frequently: spec. forming words relating to the use of computer technology to generate sound, or to modify sound produced by traditional musical instruments (usually in response to motion as perceived by electronic sensors) as hypergenerated, hyper-music, hyper-musician. ΚΠ 1991 Omni Mar. 47/3 While [Tod] Machover today plays music with the help of a glove, for instance, hypermusicians of the future will use the whole body. 1993 Wired Mar. (Premiere Issue) 72/1 The good news is that a new wave of technology I call ‘hyperlearning’, or HL for short, offers a technological replacement for today's educational morass. 1993 Village Voice (N.Y.) 20 Apr. 70/3 Machover, MIT tech-wiz, will show a video song from his sci-fi opera Valis and process a hypercello through three computers. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 137 To us diehard word-by-worders, the trouble with such high-tech illusions as those multisensory hyperworlds envisioned (enheard, ensmelled, entasted, enfelt) by computer simulation is that their wraparound virtual reality is real virtuality. 1996 Guardian 1 Mar. (Friday Review section) 8/1 The guitarist Robert Fripp will be constructing hypergenerated soundscapes in the foyer of the QEH and there will be a series of concerts. 2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 7 May 7/3 The exhaustive range of sexual services on offer [on the web] create ‘hypersexuality’, which they define as a compulsive need for cybersex which can kill off marriages and partnerships. < as lemmas |
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