Special Section: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues Associated with Virtual Environments and Computer Mediated Reality Guest Editors' Introduction

摘要

Recent advances in the technologies associated with wearable computing, virtual environments, and computer-mediated realities (augmented, diminished, or otherwise computer-modified) are generating a number of important and very challenging legal, ethical, and policy issues. We use computers with opaque (fully mediated) and see-through (partially mediated) displays to enter into computer-mediated environments (virtual, augmented, enhanced, or deliberately diminished), to modify our view of the real world by images, graphics, text, and so on, as well as to change, mediate, and alter reality in unique and novel ways (see the paper by Steve Mann, "Sousveillance and Cyborglogs: A 30 Year Empirical Voyage Through Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues").