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Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.

"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"-- Days after winning control of OASIS, the immersive virtual reality environment in which most of humanity chooses to live, Wade Watts discovers a world-changing technological advancement and draws the attention of a merciless...

Five tweens navigate the pandemic by attending an experimental virtual reality school.

"A virtualist is a doctor who specializes in virtual medicine. She uses tools like VR headsets, spatial acoustics, haptic feedback, and even olfactory mimicry to induce reactions in patients' bodies that help treat a variety of physiological and psychological conditions, from chronic pain, to compulsive behavior, without the use of pharmaceuticals or surgical techniques. Virtualists don't exist yet, but after reading VRx they just might. In recent...

A designer of a virtual reality game is hunted by an assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation.

A cryptic message from an oddly familiar winged visitor is all Paul Jones has to help him survive in the conplex virtual reality world known as "Otherland."

In the future the only relief from the sea of logos is the computer-generated universe of virtual reality? But now a strange computer virus, called Snow Crash, is striking down hackers, leaving an unlikely young man as humankind's last hope.

Virtual reality researchers invent a machine that downloads one person's thoughts and sensations to another, then must keep their high-tech invention from the wrong hands.

On the thirteenth floor of a corporate tower, high-tech visionary Douglas Hall and his high-strung colleague Whitney have opened the door to a virtual world--circa 1937 Los Angeles. But when the powerful leader of their secret project is discovered slashed to death, Hall himself becomes the prime suspect.

The price of virtual reality headsets may seem out of reach for most libraries, but the potential of "assisted reality" tools goes well beyond patrons strapping on goggles, from enhanced training to third-party apps that enrich digital collections. This title includes case studies from a mix of institution types, spotlighting a variety of uses, and encouraging libraries to look beyond their own reality and adapt the ideas presented.