Virtual Reality
-- NonFiction Books --

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• Silicon Mirage: The Art and Science of Virtual Reality by Steve Aukstakalnis, David Blatner
  (1992, non-fiction)

• Cyberspace: Collected Abstracts edited by Michael Benedikt
  (1990, non-fiction)

• Cyberspace: First Steps edited by Michael Benedikt
  (1992, non-fiction...MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US... book info, plus a link to an online version of the 'Introduction', a link to the paper "The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat" by Chip Morningstar and F.Randall Farmer, and a link to Alan Wexelblat's homepage)

• The Human Interface: Where People and Computers Meet by Richard A.Bolt
  (1984, non-fiction...Lifetime Learning Publications, Belmont, California, US, hbk, ISBN 0-534-03380-6... interactive computer systems)

• The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T. by Stewart Brand
  (1987, non-fiction)

• Virtual Reality Technology by Grigore C.Burdea and Philippe Coiffet
  (199?, non-fiction...John Wiley & Sons, New York, US)

• Force and Touch Feedback for Virtual Reality by Grigore C.Burdea
  (1996, non-fiction...John Wiley & Sons, New York, US, hbk, ISBN 0-471-02141-5... very technical)

• The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
  (1998, non-fiction) "...The VR of the future will bypass the senses, says Deutsch, interfacing with the brain directly by feeding it the necessary nerve impulses to create particular experiences." --Paul Parsons (in New Scientist , Vol 157, No 2122, 21 February 1998).

• Pictorial Communication in Virtual and Real Environments by S.R.Ellis
  (1991, non-fiction)

• Ray Tracing Worlds with Pov-Ray by Alexander Enzman, Lutz Kretzschmar, Chris Young
  (19??, non-fiction... book/CD-Rom... from the authors of POV-Ray and Moray software)

• The Metaverse For Real: VR Chat on the Web by Max L.Gallop
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Mirror Worlds: The Day Software Puts the Universe In a Shoebox... How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean by David Gelernter
  (1991, non-fiction)

• Virtual Reality: Adventures in Cyberspace by Francis Hamit and Wes Thomas
  (1991, non-fiction)

• What's Virtual Reality? by Katura Hattori
  (19??, non-fiction)

• The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality by Michael Heim
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Virtual Realities: Theory, Practice And Promise edited by Sandra K.Helsel and Judith Paris Roth
  (1991, non-fiction... Dr Sandra Helsel can be reached at: san@well.sf.ca.us)

• Step Into Virtual Reality by John Iovine
  (1995, non-fiction...Windcrest / McGraw-Hill, US, pbk... how to build your own VR equipment and interfaces... includes floppy disk)

• CyberArts: Exploring Art & Technology edited by Linda Jacobson
  (1992, non-fiction, essays, articles, anthology...Miller-Freeman, US)

• Garage Virtual Reality: The Affordable Way to Explore Virtual Worlds by Linda Jacobson
  (1994, non-fiction...Sams / Macmillan, US)

• The Science of Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments by Roy Kowalski
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music and Electric Flesh by Arthur Kroker
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Data Trash: The Theory Of The Virtual Class by Arthur Kroker and Michael A.Weinstein
  (1994, non-fiction)

• Artificial Reality by Myron W.Krueger
  (1983, non-fiction)

• Artificial Reality II by Myron W.Krueger
  (1991, non-fiction)

• The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design edited by Brenda Laurel
  (1990, non-fiction)

• Computers as Theatre by Brenda Laurel
  (1991, non-fiction)

• Virtual Reality Playhouse by Nicholas Lavroff
  (19??, non-fiction... book/CD-Rom)

• Virtual Realities: An Anthology of Industry and Culture edited by Carl Eugene Loeffler
  (1993, non-fiction)

• The Virtual Reality Casebook edited by Carl Eugene Loeffler and Tim Anderson
  (1994, non-fiction)

• Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American SF Writers by Larry McCaffery
  (1990, non-fiction)

• Virtual Reality: A Selected Bibliography by H.McLellan
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Virtual Reality: Through the New Looking Glass by Ken Pimental, Kevin Teixeira
  (1993, non-fiction)

• Virtual Reality by Howard Rheingold
  (1991, non-fiction)

• The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold
  (1993, non-fiction... book info, plus link to complete online version)

• Playing God: Building Virtual Worlds with REND386 by Bernie Roehl
  (19??, non-fiction... book/CD-Rom)

• Ray Tracing for the Macintosh CD: Explore the Magic of Ray Tracing on Your Mac by Eduard Schwan
  (19??, non-fiction... book/CD-Rom... for more info, check his website, or go direct to the book entry there)

• Walkthroughs and Flybys II: Modeling the Dream collected by Phil Shatz
  (19??, non-fiction... book/CD-Rom)

• Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell: Virtual Reality and Its Implications by Barrie Sherman and Phil Judkins
  (1992, non-fiction)

• War of the Worlds: The Assault on Reality by Mark Slouka
  (1995, non-fiction...Basic Books, US)

• Virtual Reality Creations by Dave Stampe, Bernie Roehl, John Eagan
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle
  (1995, non-fiction, psychology...Simon & Schuster, New York, US... cyberspace, virtual reality, identity, artificial life)

• Ray Tracing Creations by Drew Wells and Chris Young
  (19??, non-fiction... book/CD-Rom... from the creators of POV-Ray software)

• Virtual Reality: Applications and Explorations edited by Alan Wexelblat
  (1993, non-fiction... check his homepage for a complete bio and more info... and UCIrvine Bookweb for a link to additional book details)

• Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality by Benjamin Woolley
  (1992, non-fiction...
  also check Benjamin Woolley -- *note: this might be a dead URL)

• Virtual Architecture by Giuliano Zampi and Conway Lloyd Morgan
  (1995, non-fiction...Batsford, London, UK, hbk, ISBN 0-7134-7629-X... virtual reality used in architecture, urban planning)

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