How will you cope, living with your avatar?

April 5, 2011 | Source: New Scientist Culture Lab

In Infinite Reality, Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson map the exciting possibilities and daunting downsides of ever more realistic virtual worlds, such as virtual immortality, teleportation, time travel and the ability to be in two places at once.

The book starts with a short discussion of the history of virtual reality, builds to a broad overview of the research literature and ends with a road map of the near future.