Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415684714 ISBN 13: 9780415684712

Publisher: CRC Press, 2011

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 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0415684714
• ISBN 13: 9780415684712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Fuchs Philippe, Moreau Guillaume, Guitton Pascal