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1	The Ultimate Official Guide to Club Penguin, Volume 1 more books like this by Katherine Noll add to wishlist This book leads readers on an in-depth tour of Club Penguin, letting them in on tricks and shortcuts. Readers will get tips on how to play games on the site, how to adopt a puffle, decorate their igloo, and much more! see all copies from $2.13! new only from $5.66! \| SVS
2	Working Virtually: Challenges of Virtual Teams more books like this by Robert Jones add to wishlist Virtual teams have been used to leverage scarce and distributed resources for many years. Expense reductions, health epidemics, air travel safety, and complex supply chains have only intensified this need. General best practices for leading and participating in virtual teams are well known but why are there still misconceptions about their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
3	An Introduction to Programming Using Alice more books like this by Charles W Herbert add to wishlist "Alice: An Introduction to Programming Using Virtual Reality" is designed to make learning programming easy for the novice user, with the help of Alice. Object-oriented programming can be quite a bit more challenging to learn than traditional programming. Alice is a software tool that was developed to help teach object-oriented programming in a ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $27.19! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Designing Virtual Worlds more books like this by Richard Bartle add to wishlist Designing Virtual Worlds is the most comprehensive treatment of virtual world design to-date from one of the true pioneers and most sought-after design consultants. It's a tour de force of VW design, stunning in intellectual scope, spanning the literary, economic, sociological, psychological, physical, technological, and ethical underpinnings of ... see all copies from $20.95! new only from $29.54! \| SVS
5	Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean more books like this by David Hillel Gelernter add to wishlist This study takes the reader on a tour of the computer technology of the future - particularly the ability to use computers to mirror virtual reality. These images of reality depicted on computer screens, known as mirror worlds, will allow users to explore concepts in unprecedented detail. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.44! \| first editions \| SVS
6	How Computer Games Help Children Learn more books like this by David Williamson Shaffer, James Paul Gee (Foreword by) add to wishlist Combining years of research and classroom experience, Shaffer makes a compelling argument for the educational power of computer games as tools to help children learn about real world issues.Gaming is a hot topic - $10 billion game industry, new international gamers conferences, and record-breaking sales on interactive games for all ages. As ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.48! \| SVS
7	Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments: From Realism to Real-Time more books like this by Mel Slater, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Anthony Steed add to wishlist This book provides a clear tutorial guide to essential concepts in computer graphics, including state-of-the-art techniques and novel applications such as virtual reality and other forms of 3D interaction. Providing a rich source of examples with which to experiment, and encouraging the development of programming skills, this book is ideal for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.00! \| SVS
8	Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games more books like this by Edward Castronova add to wishlist From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages and from all walks of life now spend thousands of hours - and dollars - partaking in this popular new brand of escapism. But the line between fantasy ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.65! \| first editions \| SVS
9	A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality more books like this by Karen McMenemy add to wishlist This book is a two-part guide to the science, technology, mathematics, and practical implementation of virtual reality. Part 1 contains an explanation of what virtual reality (VR) is (and what it is not!) and what lies inside the hardware components of a VR system. It also details the theory of many technically challenging aspects of VR in a very ... see all copies from $40.15! new only from $56.98!
10	The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination more books like this by Mark Pesce add to wishlist This optimistic peek into the future illustrates how interactive technology is changing our lives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Designing Your Second Life: Techniques and Inspiration for You to Design Your Ideal Parallel Universe Within the Online Community, Second Life more books like this by Rebecca Tapley add to wishlist Whether your second, virtual life has just begun, or you've been "in-world" for a long time, a successful and rewarding experience depends on your mastery of design. Everything from your avatar to your home, your clothes to your behavior says something about who you are and the way others see you. In this book Rebecca Tapley--"Mera Luan" in SL- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.68! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Cyber Cities more books like this by M Christine Boyer add to wishlist In these polemical essays, urban historian M. Christine Boyer argues that the computer is to contemporary society what the machine was to modernism, and that this metaphor profoundly affects the way we ultimately grasp reality. But there is, she believes, an inherent danger here: as cyberspace pulls us into its electronic grasp, we withdraw from ... see all copies from $5.38! new only from $14.63!
13 view cover	War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality more books like this by Mark Slouka add to wishlist Mark Z. Slouka argues that the perception of reality in America has been radically altered by the emergence of new technologies. The notion of reality as an empirical shared state of existence has been particularly challenged by a revolution in the "virtual" technologies spawned by the computer industry. What is "real" in a society infiltrated by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life more books like this by Mark Stephen Meadows add to wishlist What is an avatar? Why are there nearly a billion of them, and who is using them? Do avatars impact our real lives, or are they just video game conceits? Is an avatar an inspired rendering of its creator's inner self, or is it just one among millions of anonymous vehicles clogging the online freeways? Can we use our avatars to really connect with ... see all copies from $20.51! new only from $20.51! \| SVS
15 view cover	City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn more books like this by William J Mitchell add to wishlist This is an introduction to a new type of city, a largely invisible but increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the emerging information superhighway. Practical examples and illustrations are used to examine architecture and urbanism in the context of digital telecommunications revolution, the ongoing miniturization of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality more books like this by Michael Heim add to wishlist Computers have dramatically altered life in the late twentieth century. Today we can draw on worldwide computer links, speeding up communications by radio, newspapers, and television. Ideas fly back and forth and circle the globe at the speed of electricity. And just around the corner lurks full-blown virtual reality, in which we will be able to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.32! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Virtual Manufacturing more books like this by Prashant Banerjee, Pranshant Banerjee, Dan Zetu add to wishlist Bridges the gap between virtual reality and computer vision in manufacturing What will it take to make virtual manufacturing a reality? In this groundbreaking book, leading VR researchers reveal the latest findings in key areas that are driving the development of this revolutionary new technology. In addition to workcell management, real-time ... see all copies from $89.69! new only from $106.37!
18 view cover	Virtual Realism more books like this by Michael Heim add to wishlist "Virtual Realism" is an art form and a way of living with technology. To explain it, Michael Heim draws on a hypertext of topics, from answering machines to interactive art, from engineering to television programs, from the meaning of UFOs to the Internet. The technology of virtual reality brought a new dimension to culture with its virtual ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Caligari Truespace Bible with CD-ROM more books like this by Peter Plantec add to wishlist This guide covers the 3-D desktop publishing software TrueSpace. The book provides tutorials and hands-on exercises, and includes an accompanying CD-ROM. see all copies from $1.99!
20 view cover	The Wired Neighborhood more books like this by Stephen Doheny-Farina add to wishlist Are communication technologies ushering in a new age of computer networks that connect people into worldwide virtual communities of like-minded individuals? Or are global computer networks isolating us from real relationships and from our society, as we stare into a screen instead of interacting face to face? In this book, Stephen Doheny-Farina ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.16! \| first editions
21 view cover	The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age more books like this by Allucquere Rosanne Stone add to wishlist In this work, Allucquere Rosanne Stone examines the myriad ways modern technology is challenging traditional notions of gender identity. Face-to-face meetings, and even telephone conversations, involuntarily reveal crucial aspects of identity such as gender, age and race. However, these bits of identity are completely masked by computer-mediated ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Digital Mosaics: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace more books like this by Steven Holtzman add to wishlist Through the works of cutting-edge computer artists, composers, and designers, DIGITAL MOSAICS explores the possibilities of the digital medium and how it radically transforms the way art is produced and understood by the audience. Digital expert Steven Holtzman lays the groundwork for the digital and art worlds of our future. Index. 86 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java: With CDROM more books like this by ROEHL COUCH REED-BALLREICH ROHALY BRown, Justin Couch, Bernie Roehl add to wishlist This guide to VRML 2.0 includes in-depth discussion of all the evolving API's - living worlds, universal avatars, universal worlds, liquid reality and cybersockets. It discusses NURBS surfaces, sound amd music and file format conversion. see all copies from $1.99!
24 view cover	The Internet Imaginaire more books like this by Dr. Patrice Flichy, Liz Carey-Libbrecht (Translator) add to wishlist This title talks about the collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet: what led software designers, managers, employees, politicians, and individuals to develop and adopt one particular technology. In "The Internet Imaginaire", sociologist Patrice Flichy examines the collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet - ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.22! \| SVS
25 view cover	Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design more books like this by Woodrow Barfield (Editor), Thomas A Furness (Editor) add to wishlist Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design is a volume of original chapters to introduce the reader to the technology of virtual reality. The research presented in this book examines the impact of the new technology of virtual reality on the field of human factors. The first editor, Barfield, is head of the Human Factor Laboratory at the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $55.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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