Sherman / Craig / Will Developing Virtual Reality Applications

Foundations of Effective Design
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-08-095908-5
Verlag: Morgan Kaufmann
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

Virtual Reality has turned the corner from being merely an interesting laboratory novelty to become a valuable tool with practical applications in many fields. From best-selling VR guru Bill Sherman comes Virtual Reality for Commercial Applications - a comprehensive compendium that examines over 50 current, unique, and foundational VR applications in Business, Science, Medicine, Education, Spatial Studies, Public Safety, and Entertainment industries. By examining myriad real world VR applications in detail, the authors provide an inside view of what works, what doesn't work, and why.

The book begins by providing the core technical information necessary to fully understand the theoretical principals of VR, as well as the detailed application analyses that follow. Each subsequent chapter includes a sampling of exemplary applications, providing a wealth of lessons about VR development, or use in a specific field. Each chapter also contains one or more ?key applications? that are explored in depth, as well as examples of these applications in their most recent form that include information on the most current research being conducted. Additionally, Virtual Reality for Commercial Applications cross references techniques between different application areas, thereby synthesizing the data from individual chapters into a coherent whole that describes overall VR trends and fundamental best practices. Such synergy gives you a hands-on guide for developing your own applications, and makes Virtual Reality for Commercial Applications an indispensable one-stop reference for anyone working in this burgeoning field



* Presents a wide variety of detailed application descriptions across ALL areas of industry, providing you with practical ideas for VR development in ANY area of interest!
* Cross references development techniques between different application areas, supplying you with fundamental best practices across disciplines!
* Includes an online and media-rich companion site with hours of footage from application demonstrations, which puts you in the middle of the action!

Zielgruppe

Professionals and researchers in Virtual Reality, including hardware and software developers and engineers. Practitioners concerned with modeling and visualization as well as managers in industry that are looking for and evaluating enabling technologies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sherman, William R.

Craig, Alan B.

Will, Jeffrey D.

Craig, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Virtuelle Realität, Erweiterte Realität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUAL REALITY ; BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURING ; SCIENCE APPLICATIONS ; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS ; EDUCATION APPLICATIONS ; LOCATION WALKABOUT APPLICATIONS ; PUBLIC SAFETY & MILITARY APPLICATIONS ; ART ; ENTERTAINMENT APPLICATIONS

Über Autor(innen)

Sherman, William R.
William R. Sherman is Interim Director of the Environmental Modeling and Visualization Lab at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. Previously he lead the virtual reality effort at the National Center for Super- computing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has authored several book chapters and papers on the topics of scientific visualization and virtual reality and has taught a graduate-level course on VR at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Craig, Alan
Alan B. Craig currently does research and development in the Visualization and Virtual Environments group at the NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to giving numerous presentations, Alan has authored papers and book chapters related to scientific visualization and virtual reality. Prior to his work in the Visualization and Virtual Environments Group, Alan was Manager of the NCSA Training Group, Manager of the NCSA Information Technology Group, and a member of the NCSA Scientific Visualization Group.

William R. Sherman is Interim Director of the Environmental Modeling and Visualization Lab at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. Previously he lead the virtual reality effort at the National Center for Super- computing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has authored several book chapters and papers on the topics of scientific visualization and virtual reality and has taught a graduate-level course on VR at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Jeff Will is an Associate Professor at Valparaiso University. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2002, he was named the Fredrick F. Jenny Professor of Emerging Technology in Engineering. He established the college's Scientific Visualization Laboratory, where he has directed students in major research projects and taught VR technology and programming courses to undergraduates as well as aided faculty from other disciplines to integrate VR into their curricula. Alan B. Craig currently does research and development in the Visualization and Virtual Environments group at the NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to giving numerous presentations, Alan has authored papers and book chapters related to scientific visualization and virtual reality. Prior to his work in the Visualization and Virtual Environments Group, Alan was Manager of the NCSA Training Group, Manager of the NCSA Information Technology Group, and a member of the NCSA Scientific Visualization Group.