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Foreword by James H. Gilmore

Acknowledgments

part I PREPARATION

Introduction: Innovation on the Digital Frontier

1. Cosmos Incogniti: Introducing the Multiverse

part II REAL ORIENTATION

2. Reality: Presenting the Richest of Experiences

3. Augmented Reality: Enhancing the World around Us

4. Alternate Reality: Creating an Alternate View of the Real World

5. Warped Reality: Playing with Time

part III VIRTUAL ORIENTATION

6. Virtuality: Crafting the Most Imaginative of Experiences

7. Augmented Virtuality: Bringing the Material into the Virtual

8. Physical Virtuality: Instantiating the Virtual in the Material

9. Mirrored Virtuality: Absorbing the Real World into the Virtual

part IV GUIDING

10. Multiverse Excursion: Reaching through the Realms

11. Offering Depiction: Varying the Variables

12. Third Spaces: Fusing the Real and the Virtual

13. From Design to Deployment: Act into the Future

Afterword: To Infinity and Beyond 223

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