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.