ABSTRACT
In this chapter I am not so much concerned with the use of virtual reality (VR) in geography, rather I want to explore the social and urban geography of a social VR space that is inhabited by thousands of people from around the world. This has received little attention from academic geography (some notable exceptions include the papers by Batty et al., 1998; Hillis, 1996; Taylor, 1997). I have chosen to focus on one particular VR space known as AlphaWorld. I hope that exploring the social and physical geography of AlphaWorld will be revealing for wider notions of the geography of virtual reality.
