Abstract Utopian images in XR-games are often ambiguous. How can ambiguity be consciously designed virtual worlds? What the design principles for game designers? Ambiguity arises from discontinuity and decontextualization, deliberate omission of facts, skillful superimposition contradictory codes. An ontology interactive media explains elusive visual poetry image perception. The five basic elem...

stanley g. weinbaum was one of the american science fiction writers of the 1920s and 1930s who anticipated virtual reality early in the development of the genre in the united states. the machine in weinbaum’s science fiction plays a crucial role in the production of virtual space and time. not only does weinbaum’s gadgetry function within the domain of spatial alterity, but they also provide te...

Aspect of visual perception occupies a central position in shaping the physical structure of a city. This paper discusses the visual characteristics of utopian cities and their impact on the shaping of real urban structures. Utopian examples of cities will not be discussed in terms of social and sociological conditions, but rather the emphasis is on urban utopias and ideal cities that have achi...

Utopian thought has been discredited because attempts to re-engineer society using Utopian formulae have invariably produced violence and despotism. But the apparent eclipse of Utopia has left a yawning gap, for economic and social conditions across the globe suggest a need for alternatives to the reigning social order – and thus for Utopian thinking which avoids the pitfalls of ‘classical’ Uto...