Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-68471-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 932 g

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 book and design guide to help the reader develop a VR project, it presents the reader with the importance of the user’s needs and various aspects of the human computer interface (HCI). It further treats technical aspects of VR, hardware and software implementations, and details on the sensory and psycho-sensory interfaces. Providing various concepts and technologies, including mathematics and modelling techniques, it allows the reader to formalize, conceptualize and construct a virtual reality project from original thought to application. This book is intended for engineers, computer scientists and computer game developers working on various VR applications. It can further serve as an educational tool in Virtual Reality courses for senior graduate and postgraduate students.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuchs, Philippe

Moreau, Guillaume

Guitton, Pascal

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Virtuelle Realität, Erweiterte Realität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to virtual reality 2. Theoretical and pragmatic approach to virtual reality

3. Human senses 4. Interaction between virtual reality and behavioural sciences

5. Immersion and presence 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 14. Geometric models of virtual environments 15. Models for visual rendering 16. Models for haptic rendering 17. Collision detection

Über Autor(innen)

Philippe Fuchs, Professor in Mines ParisTech, School of Engineering
(Paris), is the leader of the ' Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality ' team.
His field of research is the theoretical approach of VR and its applications
in industry.

Guillaume Moreau is Associate Professor at Ecole Centrale Nantes School
of Engineering and his research topics are GIS, Virtual and Augmented Reality
and Computer vision.

Pascal Guitton is full Professor at the University of Bordeaux. He is
President of the French national association of Virtual Reality (AFRV) and
the Director of Research at INRIA.