Virtual reality : concepts and technologies

✍ Scribed by Philippe Fuchs; Guillaume Moreau; Pascal Guitton

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 434
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

''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 area. Designed as a reference design guide to help the reader develop a VR project, it presents the importance of the users needs and various aspects of the human computer interface Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: I . Introduction 1. Introduction to virtual reality 2. Theoretical and pragmatic approach to virtual reality II. The human being in virtual environments 3. Human senses 4. Interaction between virtual reality and behavioural sciences 5. Immersion and presence III. Behavioural interfaces 6. Location sensors 7. Manual motor interfaces 8. Hardware devices of force feedback interfaces 9. Control of a force feedback interface 10. Tactile feedback interfaces 11. Visual interfaces 12. Interaction techniques for virtual behavioural primitives 13. Stereoscopic restitution of vision IV. Tools and models for virtual environments 14. Geometric models of virtual environments 15. Models for visual rendering 16. Models for haptic rendering 17. Collision detection
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