Virtual Reality

  • Virtual Reality: Representations in Contemporary Media
    By Melanie Chan

    Sideris, Lisa H. 'I See You: Interspecies Empathy and Avatar.' Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 4, no. ... Stevens, Tyler. 'Sinister Fruitiness: Neuromancer, Internet Sexuality and the Turing Test.

  • Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges
    By National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Committee on Virtual Reality Research and Development

    This volume discusses all aspects of creating a system that will allow human operators to see, hear, smell, taste, move about, give commands, respond to conditions, and manipulate objects effectively in a real or virtual environment.

  • Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges
    By National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Committee on Virtual Reality Research and Development

    This volume discusses all aspects of creating a system that will allow human operators to see, hear, smell, taste, move about, give commands, respond to conditions, and manipulate objects effectively in a real or virtual environment.

  • Virtual Reality: Representations in Contemporary Media
    By Melanie Chan

    However, this book will pay particular attention to the time between the 1980s to the 1990s when virtual reality and cyberspace were represented, particularly in fiction, as a wondrous technology that enabled transcendence from the ...

  • Virtual Reality
    By Samuel Greengard

    In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, technology writer Samuel Greengard offers an accessible overview of developments in extended reality, explaining the technology, considering the social and psychological ...

  • Virtual Reality
    By Brett S. Martin

    Virtual Reality gives people the opportunity to visit and explore worlds created by computers.

  • Virtual Reality: Future of Health Care
    By Lynne Edgar

    Hospital groups differ on interventions for tomorrow's medicine. 3-D interface, volume reconstruction, virtual imagery, and stealth platform surgery guided systems all enhance conventional medicine in treatment planning, diagnostic tests ...

  • Virtual Reality
    By Holly Cefrey

    Introduces virtual reality, exploring the technology involved and looking toward what the future might bring as VR is used more widely in entertainment, education, science, and medicine.

  • Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained! (First Edition -1998)
    By Jerome Iglowitz

    297 Between the living being and the environment there is a "necessary structural congruence", [but see my comment above], "(or the unity disappears)." But organisms must, (in the innate phenomenology of biology), be considered as ...

  • Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies
    By Philippe Fuchs, Guillaume Moreau, Pascal Guitton

    A manual for both designers and users, comprehensively presenting the current state of experts' knowledge on virtual reality (VR) in computer science, mechanics, optics, acoustics, physiology, psychology, ergonomics, ethics, and related ...

  • Virtual Reality
    By Josh Gregory

    With this book, students learn about the past, present, and future of technological innovation. Fun, engaging text introduces readers to new ideas and builds on technology concepts they may already know.

  • Virtual Reality: Technologies, Medical Applications and Challenges
    By Pietro Cipresso, Silvia Serino

    The aim of the book Virtual Reality-Technologies, Medical Applications, and Challenges is twofold: (1) to provide a critical overview of the most interesting medical applications of VR technologies and (2) to reflect on the future ...

  • Virtual Reality: Applications and Explorations
    By Alan Wexelblat

    In most virtual reality systems, a mere few hundred polygons can unacceptably slow down the response to head movements because the scene must be computed on-the-fly over and over again. In panaroma mode, an observer may, for example, ...

  • Virtual Reality: Second International Conference, ICVR 2007, Held as Part of HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings
    By Randall Shumaker

    d.tools: Visually Prototyping Physical UIs through Statecharts, In: Proceedings of UIST 2005 (2005) Horrocks, I.: Constructing the User interface with Statecharts. Addison-Wesley, London, UK (1998) ISO9241-11: Ergonomic requirements for ...

  • Virtual Reality: Through the New Looking Glass
    By Kevin Teixeira, Ken Pimentel

    In their introduction to the new field of virtual reality, Kevin Teixeira and Ken Pimentel begin with an informative, yet refreshingly nontechnical, overview of the field. They explain what VR...

  • Virtual Reality: Practical Applications in Business and Industry
    By Dimitris N. Chorafas, Heinrich Steinmann

    Based on an extensive, international research project on the practical applications of virtual reality, this book demonstrates that there is a growing range of virtual reality applications in an expanding...

  • Virtual Reality: Business Applications, Markets and Opportunities
    By Jean Leston, Katy Ring, Elisabeth Kyral

    Virtual Reality: Business Applications, Markets and Opportunities

  • Virtual Reality
    By Harvey P. Newquist

    Introduces the concepts and images of virtual reality with 3-D art and 3-D glasses and explains how virtual reality is used by scientists, pilots, and architects

  • Virtual Reality: Human Computer Interaction
    By Tang Xinxing

    ... Pictorial Communication in Virtual and Real Environments. Taylor and Francis. [9] Holloway, R. L. (1995). Registration Errors in Augmented Reality Systems. PhD thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [10] Kennedy, R ...

  • Virtual Reality: Theory, Practice, and Promise
    By Sandra K. Helsel, Judith Paris Roth

    On the creation of highly interactive, computer-based multimedia environments in which the user becomes a participant with the computer in a "virtually real" world. Essentially, the volume is a republication...