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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.
3) Chrysalis
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan volume 6
Language
English
Description
"A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company--Chrysalis--whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live ... and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world. Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by...
4) Black water
Author
Series
Pendragon volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Just when 15-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler he is faced with an impossible choice.
Author
Series
Star Wars galaxy of fear volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Hologram Fun World is a theme park visited by families from all across the galaxy. One of the park's attractions is called the Nightmare Machine. It scans your brain, then shows you your worst fears in holographic form. It's not real, so it's fun--right? Zak and Tash soon find out that nightmares can come true.
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it's addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb,...
8) Bug Park
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
9) Reamde
Author
Language
English
Description
When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
10) Side life
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Smart, paranoid literary science fiction crossover for fans of Blake Crouch and Philip K. Dick, set in present-day Seattle Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting a beautiful Seattle mansion. There he discovers that the owner--who has been missing for a year--has built a secret basement lab. In the lab there are computers, wired caskets, and a thick, dog-eared notebook...
12) Solitaire
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Since the moment she came into the world, Ren "Jackal" Segura has been treated differently. As a Hope, she is a symbol of the highest principles of human society and is guaranteed a position of influence in the global government once she comes of age. But two months before she is to assume the role she has been preparing for her entire life when she will leave her home to represent the massive corporate entity that houses, feeds, and employs her...
14) OtherLife
Author
Series
Last reality volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
"Simon, Kat, Busara, and Elvis know too much about the Company's dark secrets and the real-life consequences its technology is capable of. To save humanity and shut it down forever though, Simon must first survive the most harrowing trial yet--OtherLife--the next phase of gaming, and a complete reality reboot"--
15) Head on
Author
Language
English
Description
Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it. Until a star...
16) Creating augmented and virtual realities: theory and practice for next-generation spatial computing
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Despite popular forays into augmented and virtual reality in recent years, spatial computing still sits on the cusp of mainstream use. Developers, artists, and designers looking to enter this field today have few places to turn for expert guidance. In this book, Erin Pangilinan, Steve Lukas, and Vasanth Mohan examine the AR and VR development pipeline and provide hands-on practice to help you hone your skills. Through step-by-step tutorials, you'll...
17) Idlewild
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Upon waking with no memory, a young man is plagued with finding out his past, figuring out whom from his past he can trust, and solving the question of who is trying to kill him.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Eliza McKay is an Extractionist: an expert in the virtual reality space where people's minds are uploaded as digital personas. When rich or important people get stuck in the Swim for reasons that are sleazy, illegal, or merely unlucky--it's McKay's job to quietly extract them. And McKay's job just got a lot more dangerous. After McKay repels an attack on her Swim persona, hired thugs break into her house to try to hack her cybernetic implants directly....
20) Elusion
Author
Series
Elusion volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A new technology is sweeping the country. To enter Elusion®, you need an app, a visor, and a wristband, and you'll be virtually transported to an exotic destination where adventure comes without the complications or consequences of real life. When there are accusations that Elusion is addictive and dangerous, Regan is determined to defend it and is pulled into incredible new worlds to discover deeply buried truths?and to make the ultimate choice...