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Virtual reality : scientific and technological challenges

Title
Virtual reality : scientific and technological challenges / Nathaniel I. Durlach and Anne S. Mavor, editors.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Durlach, Nathaniel I.
  • Mavor, Anne S.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Virtual Reality Research and Development.
Description
xi, 542 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Despite widespread popular and professional interest in virtual reality, research and development efforts in synthetic environments (SE) - the field encompassing virtual environments, augmented reality, and teleoperation - have remained fragmented. Virtual Reality is the first serious, integrated treatment of the topic, presenting current knowledge from several disciplines along with thought-provoking vignettes about a future in which SE is commonplace. This volume discusses all aspects of creating a system that will allow human operators to see, hear, smell, taste, move about, give commands, respond to conditions, and manipulate objects effectively in a virtual environment. The committee of computer scientists, engineers, and psychologists on the leading edge of SE development explores the potential applications of SE in the areas of manufacturing, medicine, education, training, scientific visualization, and teleoperation in hazardous environments. The committee also charts directions for development of improved SE technology, needed studies of human behavior and evaluation of SE systems, and government policy and infrastructure."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Virtual reality
  • Virtual Reality
  • virtual reality
  • Virtuele werkelijkheid
Note
  • "Committee on Virtual Reality Research and Development, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 444-515) and index.
Contents
1. Some Psychological Considerations -- 2. Visual Channel -- 3. Auditory Channel -- 4. Haptic Interfaces -- 5. Position Tracking and Mapping -- 6. Whole-Body Motion, Motion Sickness, and Locomotion Interfaces -- 7. Speech, Physiology, and Other Interface Components -- 8. Computer Hardware and Software for the Generation of Virtual Environments -- 9. Telerobotics -- 10. Networking and Communications -- 11. Evaluation of Synthetic Environment Systems -- 12. Specific Applications of SE Systems.
ISBN
  • 0309051355
  • 9780309051354
LCCN
94037695
OCLC
  • ocm31206273
  • 31206273
  • SCSB-2047781
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library