To set out to offer a valuable collection of online resources for Virtual Reality studies, one might end up supplying the world instead of the map, or at least imagining one can or must do such a thing (which seems to lead only to sublime madness or devastation, or both, for myself and ultimately for you too). So, while the desires for totality and completion run through me like fire, alas, this offering is riddled by choices and parings, in the hope that it can give you a useful cross section of online thought and production in this area of study, focused specifically on the relation of VR to the written word— theoretical, critical, and imaginative.

A majority of the resources offered here come in the form of online essays, which focus specifically on the definition, history, and philosophy of Virtual Reality, as well as its convergences with literature and critical theory. There are a series of general resources as well, which range from homepages of prominent thinkers to relevant journals and research laboratories. Finally, there are select sites devoted to digital literature and art.

To access the "Virtual Realities & Imaginative Literature" Linkbase, which is part of the Transcriptions Project's online link database research environment, through which you can access annotated resources either by browsing the full contents of the database or by searching the contents according to your own interests,

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