A useful guide for beginners and experts in digital art and media, this book discusses spatial augmented reality approaches and provides a comprehensive overview, detailed math, code fragments, and Implementation instructions that enable interested readers to create spatial AR displays by themselves.

A humorous and sexy new series about romance and high school.

Akira once again enters the online game - The World in order to save her younger brother, who has lapsed into a coma. With the virus infection now spreading to protected areas, she joins forces with Kite to unravel the mystery of the Epitaph of the Twilight and the Cursed Wave. Should they make a deal with Balmung?

Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives looking, perversely, for escape. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of the popular doll, Little Brain, whose multiform ubiquity now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation.

At fourteen, twins Liz and BJ are smart gamemakers whose high-tech computer games sell in millions. But when their game Night's Castle becomes infected with a virus they are in trouble with the police. They must grab enough time to re-enter the VR world of Night's Castle and see if they can source the virus - if not they are ruined.

Written from BlackRose's perspective, this adaptation of the popular franchise is the first installation of yet another hit .hack novel series.

New Kashubia was a planet rich in heavy metals, but utterly lacking in carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Even dirt had to be imported at great expense. The colonists, moved there from Earth against their will, lived in tunnels drilled through solid gold but still were the poorest people in the universe. Since their only resource was people, they sent draftees out as mercenaries, fighting in tanks in .

What do you do when a game starts playing by its own rules? Shugo and Reina recently started playing The World, an advanced online game, but they are already well on their way to becoming heroes. They've got a great party of friends, cool new items, and now they've been joined by Zefie, a Vagrant AI who acts outside the rules of the game.

Brings together examples of the high-tech, far-future science fiction. This anthology includes stories, such as: A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String , A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe , A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs , An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe , and more.

The second book of Orson Scott Card's Ender saga - a series which has changed the face of science fiction.

Welcome to The World, the most advanced online game ever created. 14-year-old twins Shugo and Rena win a contest that lets them play as legendary hackers' avatars. When a high level monster attacks the Level 1 players as soon as they start, the game's administrators know something is wrong in The World.

Roberta Ritter hopes to be a journalist one day, but for now she's stuck working at her family's arcade in a dilapidated shopping mall. From her vantage point behind the counter, she sees all the goings-on at the mall - and some things she sees are disturbing. Roberta doesn't like it, but she's just a fifteen-year-old - so what can she do?

Exploring a wide range of virtual reality technologies, from a tour of a virtual art gallery to the head-up displays used by military pilots, Michael Heim suggests a harmony of technology with lifestyle.

Provides a comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption. Looking at the range of Internet media - including websites, email and chat - this book brings out unforeseen consequences and contradictions in areas as varied as personal relations, commerce, nationalism, sex and religion.

Human communication has traditionally revealed important aspects of identity such as gender, age and race. However, such information is now often masked by computer-mediated communications. This text examines the various ways modern technology is challenging conventional notions of gender identity.

Set in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism, Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National Bank with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns. Murderous, trigger-happy cops, led by the doughnut-chomping redneck police chief, arrive in force, firing indiscriminately into the .

In this title, William Shatner - Captain Kirk himself - explores how the imagination of Star Trek is reflected in the cutting-edge science of the early 21st century. The book includes interviews with dozens of scientists who inform readers about the inventions that will revolutionize lives.

The Number One bestseller reissued with a brilliant new livery, a classic backlist title from the inimitable Jodi Picoult.

Herb returns to the remote planet he has been furtively trying to build a city on, to find it a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Eva has taken desperate steps to escape the tedium of her pointless life. Meanwhile in the farthest reaches of outer space, the Enemy is plotting the final overthrow of the human race which created it.

This is a companion to the Oscar-winning film The Matrix which was acclaimed for its visuals, action sequences and special effects. The book contains the complete storyboards, the conceptual art, rarely seen stills and posters, the full script and commentary from the artists involved.