Artificial Life and Virtual Reality

✍ Scribed by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The technology which once produced the first synthetic human today includes the simulation of human behaviour processes, associated with consciousness and the emotions. When a computer creates artificial life, its synthetic creatures demonstrate the behaviour patterns of real living beings. This book investigates the technological advances which allow artificial life to be placed within a virtual setting, where the human user can meet and interact with synthetic beings—people, animals or plants—in a complete simulation of the real world. It introduces new concepts such as artificial consciousness, artificial presence, artificial autonomy and artificial perception; and discusses important results in the development of immersive and auditory virtual environments, and co-operative work.