Understanding Virtual Reality - Interface, Application, and Design

Klappentext Features substantive, illuminating coverage designed for technical or business readers and the classroom. Examines VR's constituent technologies, drawn from visualization, representation, graphics, human-computer interaction and other fields. Provides (via a companion website) additional case studies, tutorials, instructional materials and a link to an open-source VR programming system. Includes updated perception material and new sections on game engines, optical tracking, VR visual interface software and a new glossary with pictures

List of contents

PART I WHAT IS VIRTUAL REALITY? 1. Introduction to Virtual Reality 2. VR: The Medium

PART II VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEMS 3. The Human in the Loop 4. Input: Interfacing the Participant(s) with the Virtual World 5. Output: Interfacing the Virtual World with the Participant(s) 6. Presenting the Virtual World 7. Interacting with the Virtual World

PART III APPLIED VIRTUAL REALITY 8. Bringing the Virtual World to Life 9. Experience Conception and Design: Applying VR to a Problem 10. Virtual Reality: Past, Present, Future

Product details

• Authors: Alan B. Craig, William R Sherman, William R. Sherman, William R. (Technical Director Sherman
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.09.2018, delayed
• EAN: 9780128009659
• ISBN: 978-0-12-800965-9
• No. of pages: 890
• Series: The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics; Morgan Kaufmann Series in Comp; The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT