Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution

Two Silicon Valley-based Professors Survey The Field Of Virtual Reality To Explore The Possibilities And Potential Of Emerging Digital Technologies Through Which Realistic Human Personalities And Environments Can Be Replicated. Dream Machines -- A Museum Of Virtual Media -- Mirror, Mirror On The Wall -- Winning Virtual Friends And Influencing Virtual People -- The Virtual Laboratory -- Who Am I? -- Re-creating Yourself -- Street Smarts -- Eternal Life -- Digital Footprints -- The Virtual Jones -- Virtually Useful -- Virtual Yin And Yang -- More Human Than Human. Jim Blascovich And Jeremy Bailenson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.