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Virtual reality

Here are entered works on entirely digital environments that are experienced by end users. Works on environments that layer digital content on top of physical environments are entered under Augmented reality. Works on combined physical and digital content that enables interaction with real-world and digital objects are entered under Mixed reality.

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• Computer simulation
• Reality

• Virtual reality -- Fiction
• Virtual reality -- Philosophy
• Virtual reality -- Social aspects
• Avatars (Virtual reality)
• Shared virtual environments

• Environments, Virtual
• Virtual environments
• Virtual worlds

• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges (1995), ed. by Nathaniel I. Durlach and Anne S. Mavor (page images with commentary at NAP)
• City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1996), by William Mitchell (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• The Heretic, by Jason K. Chapman (HTML at jasonkchapman.com)

• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), by Bonnie A. Nardi (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space: Best Practices for Educators in Multi-User Virtual Environments (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2016), by Estelle Codier (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2010), by F. Gregory Lastowka (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Lori Kendall (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Modeling and Simulation in Python (version 3.4.3; Needham, MA: Green Tea Press, 2017), by Allen Downey (PDF with commentary at Green Tea Press)
• The Nature of Code (c2012), by Daniel Shiffman, ed. by Shannon Fry, illust. by Zannah Marsh (illustrated HTML with commentary at natureofcode.com)
• A Practical Manual on the Monte Carlo Method for Random Walk Problems (Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1957), by E. D. Cashwell and C. J. Everett, contrib. by O. W. Rechard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2004), ed. by Jordan B. Pollack, Mark Bedau, Phil Husbands, Richard A. Watson, and Takashi Ikegami (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2000), ed. by Mark Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, and Steen Rasmussen (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1998), ed. by Christoph Adami, Richard K. Belew, Hiroaki Kitano, and Charles E. Taylor (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Database Needs for Modeling and Simulation of Plasma Processing, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Analog Simulation: Solution of Field Problems (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Walter J. Karplus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dynamics of the Vietnam War: A Quantitative Analysis and Predictive Computer Simulation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1974), by Jeffrey S. Milstein (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives (London: University of Westminster Press, c2021), ed. by Pieter Verdegem (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• Artificial Intelligence and Games (2018), by Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius (PDF with commentary at gameaibook.org)
• Artificial Intelligence and Responsive Optimization (second edition, 2003), by Mohammad Khosnevisan, Sukanto Bhattacharya, and Florentin Smarandache (PDF at UNM)
• Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (c2002), ed. by Jay W. Richards, contrib. by Ray Kurzweil, John R. Searle, Michael J. Denton, William A. Dembski, Thomas S. Ray, and George F. Gilder (at kurzweilai.net)
• Artificial Intelligence (third edition, reprinted with corrections; Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1993), by Patrick Henry Winston (PDF at MIT)
• The Age of Intelligent Machines (c1992), by Ray Kurzweil (at kurzweilai.net)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)
• Artificial Intelligence Through Prolog (1988), by Neil C. Rowe (HTML at nps.edu)
• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF wih commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN
• Applications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Improve Effectiveness: A Study for the United States Army (1983), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)
• When Things Start to Think (c1999), by Neil A. Gershenfeld (HTML with commentary at kurzweilai.net)
• Elements of Robotics (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), by M. Ben-Ari and Francesco Mondada (PDF and EPub with commentary at EPFL and Springer)
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (c1992), by Peter Norvig (multiple formats with commentary at Github)
• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind (1978, with added notes and corrections), by Aaron Sloman (HTML and PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

• Flights of "13MIKE" for Versions 4.0 and 5.0: A Microsoft Flight Simulator Companion (1994), by Fred J. Calfior and Douglas W. Miller (illustrated HTML at flightsimbooks.com)
• IFR Flights of "13MIKE" for Versions 4.0 and 5.0: A Microsoft Flight Simulator Action Book (1994), by Fred J. Calfior and Douglas W. Miller (illustrated HTML at flightsimbooks.com)
• Airienteering with "13MIKE", by Fred J. Calfior and Douglas W. Miller (HTML at flightsimbooks.com)

• Four-Dimensional Model Assimilation of Data: A Strategy for the Earth System Sciences (1991), by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Users Guide to LOWTRAN 7 (Hanscom AFB, MA: Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, 1988), by F. X. Kneizys, Eric P. Shettle, L. W. Abreu, James H. Chetwynd, G. P. Anderson, W. O. Gallery, J. E. A. Selby, and S. A. Clough
  • PDF with commentary at dtic.mil
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Jet Fighter School II: More Training for Computer Fighter Pilots (1988), by Richard G. Sheffield (illustrated HTML at flightsimbooks.com)
• Jet Fighter School: Air Combat Simulator Tactics and Maneuvers (1987), by Richard G. Sheffield (illustrated HTML at flightsimbooks.com)
• An Adaptive Maneuvering Logic Computer Program for the Simulation of One-on-One Air-to-Air Combat (2 volumes; 1975), by George H. Burgin, Lawrence J. Fogel, J. Price Phelps, and A. J. Owens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shape Interrogation for Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (hyperbook edition, 2009), by N. M. Patrikalakis, Takashi Maekawa, and Wonjoon Cho (illustrated HTML at MIT)

• An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave: User Guide for the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), by Knut-Andreas Lie (PDF at Cambridge University Press)

• The Structure of Intelligence: A New Mathematical Model of Mind (prepublication version), by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)

• Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Liquids (second edition; Canberra: ANU E Press, c2007), by Denis J. Evans and Gary P. Morriss
  • HTML and PDF at ANU E Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

More items available under broader and related terms at left.