Virtual Reality : Concepts and Technologies.
Fuchs, Philippe.
Virtual Reality : Concepts and Technologies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (434 pages)
Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About the editors -- List of authors -- The French Association for Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality -- SECTION I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction to virtual reality -- 2. Theoretical and pragmatic approach to virtual reality -- SECTION II: The human being in virtual environments -- 3. Human senses -- 4. Interaction between virtual reality and behavioural sciences -- 5. Immersion and presence -- SECTION 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 -- SECTION 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.
A unique manual providing current virtual reality oncepts and technologies, including mathematics and modelling techniques, allowing the reader to formalize, conceptualize and construct a virtual reality project from original thought to application.
9780203802953
Virtual reality.
COMPUTERS / Computer Graphics bisacsh.
COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design bisacsh.
COMPUTERS / Programming / Games bisacsh.
Electronic books.
QA76.9.C65V5724 2011
006.8
Virtual Reality : Concepts and Technologies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (434 pages)
Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About the editors -- List of authors -- The French Association for Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality -- SECTION I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction to virtual reality -- 2. Theoretical and pragmatic approach to virtual reality -- SECTION II: The human being in virtual environments -- 3. Human senses -- 4. Interaction between virtual reality and behavioural sciences -- 5. Immersion and presence -- SECTION 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 -- SECTION 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.
A unique manual providing current virtual reality oncepts and technologies, including mathematics and modelling techniques, allowing the reader to formalize, conceptualize and construct a virtual reality project from original thought to application.
9780203802953
Virtual reality.
COMPUTERS / Computer Graphics bisacsh.
COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design bisacsh.
COMPUTERS / Programming / Games bisacsh.
Electronic books.
QA76.9.C65V5724 2011
006.8