
This is not like TV, only better -- says lenny Nero in Strange days
p. 48: Arthur C. Clarke has claimed that: Virtual Reality won't merely replace TV. It will eat it alive.
... he is right in the sens that virtual reality remediates televisn (and film) by the strategy of incorporation. This strategy does not mean that virtualreality can obliterate the earlier visualpoint-of-view technologies, rather it ensures that these technologies remain as least as reference points by which the immediacy of virtual reality is measured.
Paradoxically, then, remediation is as important for the logic of transparency as it is for hypermediacy.
synonyms: remediate, refashion, borrow, reform