From: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu (Human Int. Technology Lab)
Subject: ARTIFICIAL REALITY II, by Myron Krueger, now in print.
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 00:43:29 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle




	Myron Krueger's new edition of his 1982 classic, ARTIFICIAL
REALITY, is now available as ARTIFICIAL REALITY II, published by
Addison-Wesley (Reading, Massachusetts).

	The illustrations are familiar but those of Krueger's own
artificial realities are still impressive for their ingenuity and
appeal.  I borrowed the book, so I don't know its price.

	From the dustjacket:

		...Myron W. Krueger, the father of artificial
	reality, updates the influential work published nearly
	a decade ago in which he described basic features of the
	technology and provided a vision of what was to come.
	Krueger relates here his personal odyssey from the
	origins of artificial reality to current developments.
	He communicates both an imaginative breadth of possi-
	bilities and his excitement in making many of them happen.
	In addition to his own work, he discusses the important
	contributions of others in what are sometimes called
	_virtual reality, virtual environments, and cyberspace._
	Both readers familiar with Krueger's original vision and
	readers discovering him for the first time will enjoy his
	insights on the union of art and technology and his pro-
	vocative ideas on the role of computers in enhancing the
	quality of human life.

	While we're talking about Myron, his and my famous tussle at last
year's SIGGRAPH panel on virtual worlds is recounted in the newly released
PROCEEDINGS OF SIGGRAPH '90, now available from the ACM.

Bob Jacobson
Moderator