“再现”和“延伸”——媒介进化论视角下的虚拟现实

Representation and Extension——Virtual Reality from the Perspective of Media Evolution

当前,关于虚拟现实的研究集中于技术开发与应用层面,选取传播学视角展开的本体性论述较为匮乏。参考保罗·莱文森的媒介进化论以及麦克卢汉的媒介观对虚拟现实进行分析之后,本文认为:虚拟现实的再现方式进一步接近人性,再现内容进一步接近真实世界,而它对人的延伸是对身体所有感官的全面延伸,找回了人类在前技术时代中的感官平衡。

At present,the research on virtual reality mainly focuses on the level of technology development and application,but the ontological discussion under the perspective of communication is scarce.Based on Paul Levinson’s theory of media evolution and McLuhan’s media theory,carrying on the analysis of the virtual reality,we believe the feelings virtual reality brings are closer to the human nature than ever before,and the reappearance of the content is closer to the real world.And it brings a comprehensive extension of all the senses of human body,which retrieves the sensory balance that human having in the pretechnological age.