Virtual Reality. Applications and Explorations

✍ Scribed by Alan Wexelblat

Publisher: Elsevier Inc, Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 259
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Virtual Reality: Applications and Explorations collects original essays that examine a broad range of practical applications of virtual reality, from entertainment and architectural design to teleconferencing and computer-supported co-operative work. Researchers at the forefront of work in this area explain the capabilities of some present systems and outline the even more compelling possibilities they envision. The book includes original essays, including contributions by some of the leading researchers in the field

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Contributors, Page ix
Foreword: Virtual Reality: As Real As You Want It To Be, Pages xi-xii, Pat Cadigan
Preface, Pages xiii-xvi, Alan Wexelblat
Inside Front Cover, Pages xvii-xviii
Introduction to Softwhere in Computer Science, Page 1
Chapter 1 - Artificial Realities as Data Visualization Environments: Problems and Prospects, Pages 3-22, Thomas Erickson
Chapter 2 - The Reality of Cooperation: Virtual Reality and CSCW, Pages 23-44, Alan Wexelblat
Chapter 3 - Information Management Using Virtual Reality-Based Visualizations, Pages 45-74, Kim Michael Fairchild
Introduction to Softwhere in the Arts, Page 75
Chapter 4 - Writing Cyberspace: Literacy in the Age of Simulacra, Pages 77-90, Stuart Moulthrop
Chapter 5 - The Creator's Toolbox, Pages 91-121, Brian R. Gardner
Chapter 6 - Full-Body Unencumbered Immersion in Virtual Worlds: (The Vivid Approach and the Mandala® VR System), Pages 123-142,142a,142b,142c,142d,143-144, Susan Wyshynski, Vincent John Vincent
Introduction to Softwhere in the World, Page 145
Chapter 7 - An Easy Entry Artificial Reality, Pages 147-161, Myron W. Krueger
Chapter 8 - Virtual Reality and Planetary Exploration, Pages 163-197, Michael W. McGreevy
Chapter 9 - Summer Students in Virtual Reality: A Pilot Study on Educational Applications of Virtual Reality Technology, Pages 199-217, Meredith Bricken, Chris M. Byrne
Chapter 10 - Visualization of Information Flows: Virtual Reality as an Organizational Modeling Technique, Pages 219-235, Charles Grantham
Appendix A - Code Listing (Partial), Page 236
Appendix B - Definition of Terms, Page 237
Index, Pages 239-245
Other Academic Press Professional Titles of Interest, Pages ibc1-ibc6

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