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Virtual reality is able to effectively blur the line between reality and illusion, pushing the limits of our imagination and granting us access to any experience imaginable. With well-crafted simulations, these experiences, which are so immersive that the brain believes they're real, are already widely available with a VR headset and will only become more accessible and commonplace. But how does this new medium affect its users, and does it have a...
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Ready player novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
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Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other...
4) The Matrix
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c1999, p2007
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1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The day-in, day-out world is a perception. In reality it is a hoax perpetrated by an all-powerful artificial intelligence that controls us. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct, and is now fighting for the future of the human race.
5) Black water
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Pendragon series volume 5
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
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427 p. ; 20 cm.
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Just when 15-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler he is faced with an impossible choice.
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A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future "realities" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection.
Heralded as the most significant technological innovation since the smartphone, virtual reality is poised to transform our very notions of life and humanity....
8) Virtually me
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"Five tweens navigate the pandemic by attending an experimental virtual reality school"--
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The critically acclaimed author of Lovecraft Country returns with a thrilling and immersive virtual reality epic-part cyber thriller, part twisted romantic comedy-that transports you to a world where identity is fluid and nothing can be taken at face value.
John Chu is a "sherpa"-a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the...
10) The Weltall file
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[2023]
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373 pages ; 25 cm.
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"The Weltall Tournament's professional VR games were supposed to be a symbol of cooperation between SysGov and its militaristic neighbor, the Admin. But that was before star Admin player Elly Sako received a death threat, written in blood next to a copy of her own severed head. The Admin's Department of Temporal Investigation swiftly seizes control of the crime scene, and the tournament transforms into a flashpoint of charged politics and conflicting...
11) Belle
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2022
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Suzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters "U," a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer.
12) Virtual reality
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Learn all about virtual reality technology, from the earliest breakthroughs to the latest advances."--
13) The Ruby code
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"Bullied at school and home, Ash finds respite from his unhappy life in virtual reality games. One night, he spends his meager savings to help a stranger, who thanks him with a copy of an old fantasy game called The Glass Realm. While exploring the game, Ash meets a seemingly humble shopkeeper named Ruby. But from the start, Ruby seems different than the other townsfolk--especially when she and Ash stumble across an in-game quest designed not for...
15) The block
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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"Luka is a prisoner once again. But this time it's a fate worse than death. In the Block, he must toggle between enduring an Energy Harvest for twelve hours of the day and surviving complete immobilization. The only semblance of relief is the Sane Zone, created to keep prisoners from going completely mad. In this virtual reality, the prisoners live out their fantasies of life outside. But for Luka, it's different. Happy is determined to find out the...
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Last gate of the emperor volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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"Yared Heywat lives an isolated life in Addis Prime -- a hardscrabble city with rundown tech, lots of rules, and not much to do. His worrywart Uncle Moti and bionic lioness Besa are his only family... and his only friends. Often in trouble for his thrill-seeking antics and smart mouth, those same qualities make Yared a star player of the underground augmented reality game, The Hunt for Kaleb's Obelisk. But when a change in the game rules prompts...
17) The reality bug
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Pendragon series volume 4
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
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375 p. ; 20 cm.
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In his ongoing battle to save Earth and its parallel worlds from the demon Saint Dane, fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon travels to Veelox, a world whose inhabitants have abandoned their real lives in favor of virtual reality.
18) The crash
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℗♭2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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275 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Bianca Cooper, a normal sixteen-year-old student, escapes into the world of Minecraft after getting into a terrible car accident. Soon, however, she realizes she is trapped inside the game, and the in-game characters who have been attacking her resemble figures from her real life" --Publisher description.
20) Lock in
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Lock In volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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336 pages ; 22 cm
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"Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. Four percent suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in history. And one percent find themselves "locked in"--fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. One per cent doesn't seem like a lot. But in the United States, that's 1.7 million people "locked in"...including the President's...
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