Product Description

Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality environments (like and ), these millions are the start of an exodus into the refuge of fantasy, where they experience life under a new social, political, and economic order built around . Given the choice between a fantasy world and the real world, how many of us would choose reality? explains the growing migration into virtual reality, and how it will change the way we live--both in fantasy worlds and in the real one.