Avatars: Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet

by Bruce Damer

Explains how people can create digital representations of themselves and travel to virtual worlds from cityscapes to fantasy worlds where the laws of physics are repealed. Indeed goes further to describe how to become a digital homesteader and stake out virtual landscape. Assumes only a 486 or better PC, a lot of memory, a modem, and an internet provider. The CD-ROM contains ten pre-created worlds. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

552 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 1997

Reviews

[Joe Nickence · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good insight into where virtual reality has been in years past.