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Virtual Realism

Author : Michael Heim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019535009X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Realism written by Michael Heim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual reality has introduced what is literally a new dimension of reality to daily life. But it is not without controversy. Indeed, some say that a collision is inevitable between those passionately involved in the computer industry and those increasingly alienated from (and often replaced by) its applications. Opinions range from the cyberpunk attitude of Wired magazine and Bill Gates's commercial optimism to the violent opposition of the Unabomber. Now, with Virtual Realism, readers have a thought-provoking guide to the "cyberspace backlash" debate and the implications of cyberspace for our culture. Michael Heim offers a comprehensive introduction to virtual reality and a provocative commentary on its present and future impact on our lives. Heim describes the fascinating and important industrial and military uses of virtual reality, as well as its artistic and entertainment applications. He argues that we must balance the idealist's enthusiasm for computerized life with the need to ground ourselves more deeply in primary reality. This "uneasy balance" he calls virtual realism.

Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

Author : David J. Chalmers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635813
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy written by David J. Chalmers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it. Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be in a virtual world already. Along the way, Chalmers conducts a grand tour of big ideas in philosophy and science. He uses virtual reality technology to offer a new perspective on long-established philosophical questions. How do we know that there’s an external world? Is there a god? What is the nature of reality? What’s the relation between mind and body? How can we lead a good life? All of these questions are illuminated or transformed by Chalmers’ mind-bending analysis. Studded with illustrations that bring philosophical issues to life, Reality+ is a major statement that will shape discussion of philosophy, science, and technology for years to come.

Virtual Crowds

Author : Mubbasir Kapadia
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 162705829X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Crowds written by Mubbasir Kapadia and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents novel computational models for representing digital humans and their interactions with other virtual characters and meaningful environments. In this context, we describe efficient algorithms to animate, control, and author human-like agents having their own set of unique capabilities, personalities, and desires. We begin with the lowest level of footstep determination to steer agents in collision-free paths. Steering choices are controlled by navigation in complex environments, including multi-domain planning with dynamically changing situations. Virtual agents are given perceptual capabilities analogous to those of real people, including sound perception, multi-sense attention, and understanding of environment semantics which affect their behavior choices. The roles and impacts of individual attributes, such as memory and personality are explored. The animation challenges of integrating a number of simultaneous behavior and movement demands on an agent are addressed through an open source software system. Finally, the creation of stories and narratives with groups of agents subject to planning and environmental constraints culminates the presentation.

Are We There Yet?

Author : Alison Byerly
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472051865
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Are We There Yet? written by Alison Byerly and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects

Virtual Realism

Author : Robert T. Kelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Realism written by Robert T. Kelley and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality

Author : Grant Tavinor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000452123
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality written by Grant Tavinor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to present an aesthetics of virtual reality media. It situates virtual reality media in terms of the philosophy of the arts, comparing them to more familiar media such as painting, film and photography. When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost always done so through the lens of metaphysics, asking questions about the reality of virtual items and worlds, about the value of such things, and indeed, about how they may reshape our understanding of the "real" world. Grant Tavinor finds that approach to be fundamentally mistaken, and that to really account for virtual reality, we must focus on the medium and its uses, and not the hypothetical and speculative instances that are typically the focus of earlier works. He also argues that much of the cultural and metaphysical hype around virtual reality is undeserved. But this does not mean that virtual reality is illusory or uninteresting; on the contrary, it is significant for the altogether different reason that it overturns much of our understanding of how representational media can function and what we can use them to achieve. The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, philosophy of art, philosophy of technology, metaphysics, and game studies.

Narrative as Virtual Reality 2

Author : Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421417987
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Narrative as Virtual Reality 2 written by Marie-Laure Ryan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking textuality, mimesis, and the cognitive processing of texts in light of new modes of artistic world construction. Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association of America Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive “world” aspect of texts and their interactive “game” dimension? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in Narrative as Virtual Reality 2, the questions raised by the new interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-electronic literary and artistic traditions. Approaching the idea of virtual reality as a metaphor for total art, Ryan applies the concepts of immersion and interactivity to develop a phenomenology of narrative experience that encompasses reading, watching, and playing. The book weighs traditional literary narratives against the new textual genres made possible by the electronic revolution of the past thirty years, including hypertext, electronic poetry, interactive drama, digital installation art, computer games, and multi-user online worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft. In this completely revised edition, Ryan reflects on the developments that have taken place over the past fifteen years in terms of both theory and practice and focuses on the increase of narrativity in video games and its corresponding loss in experimental digital literature. Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulation, she details the many forms that interactivity has taken—or hopes to take—in digital texts, from determining the presentation of signs to affecting the level of story.

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 21

Author : J.D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614993750
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 21 written by J.D. Westwood and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 21st NextMed/MMVR conference, held in Manhattan Beach, California, in February 2014. These papers describe recent developments in medical simulation, modeling, visualization, imaging, haptics, robotics, sensors, interfaces, and other IT-enabled technologies that benefit healthcare. The wide range of applications includes simulation for medical education and surgical training, information-guided therapies, mental and physical rehabilitation tools, and intelligence networks. Since 1992, Nextmed/MMVR has engaged the problem-solving abilities of scientists, engineers, clinicians, educators, the military, students, and healthcare futurists. Its multidisciplinary participation offers a fresh perspective on how to make patient care and medical education more precise and effective.

Immersive Virtual Reality for a Building Occupant-Centric Design

Author : Arianna Latini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031660285
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Immersive Virtual Reality for a Building Occupant-Centric Design written by Arianna Latini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 02/10

Author : James D. Westwood
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586032036
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 02/10 written by James D. Westwood and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measurement of In-vivo Force Response of Intra-abdominal Soft Tissues for Surgical Simulation -- Estimation of Soft-Tissue Model Parameters Using Registered Pre- and Postoperative Facial Surface Scans -- Virtual Endoscopy using Spherical QuickTime-VR Panorama Views -- Integration of intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) dose distribution into the postoperative CT-based external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) treatment planing -- The application of eyeglass displays in changing the perception of pain -- Evaluation of Visualization Techniques for Image-guided Navigation in Liver Surgery -- Enhanced stereographic x-ray images -- The Communication Between Therapist and Patient in Virtual Reality: The Role of Mediation Played by Computer Technology -- Virtual Reality Assisted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Panic Disorders with Agoraphobia. -- Dextrous and Shared Interaction with Medical Data: stereoscopic vision is more important than hand-image collocation -- Usability Analysis of VR Simulation Software -- Elastically Deformable 3D Organs for Haptic Surgical Simulation -- A Generic Arthroscopy Simulator Architecture -- Virtual Reality in 3D Echocardiography: Dynamic Visualization of Atrioventricular Annuli Surface Models and Volume Rendered Doppler-Ultrasound -- Engineering and Algorithm Design for an Image Processing API: A Technical Report on ITK - the Insight Toolkit -- Finite Element (FE) Modeling of the Mandible: from Geometric Model to Tetrahedral Volumetric Mesh -- Author Index

The Thousand Faces of Virtual Reality

Author : Cecília Sík Lányi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535117335
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Thousand Faces of Virtual Reality written by Cecília Sík Lányi and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual Reality (VR) has thousand faces. Why? Because from the moment of VRs birth we use it in every field of our life. VR is based on the development of information technology, computer graphics, and strong high speed hardware. VR has high impact not only on research but on our daily living as well. This book has an aim to present applications, trends and newest development in three main disciplines: health sector, education and industry. In this book several new applications are presented in three sections. The first part of the book deals with health care applications. It is followed by a literature review of Augmented Reality (AR). The second section contains industry field education disciplines. The last part shows several industry applications and research. This book will be useful for researchers, engineers and students.

Advances in Robotics and Virtual Reality

Author : Tauseef Gulrez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642233635
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Robotics and Virtual Reality written by Tauseef Gulrez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beyond human knowledge and reach, robotics is strongly involved in tackling challenges of new emerging multidisciplinary fields. Together with humans, robots are busy exploring and working on the new generation of ideas and problems whose solution is otherwise impossible to find. The future is near when robots will sense, smell and touch people and their lives. Behind this practical aspect of human-robotics, there is a half a century spanned robotics research, which transformed robotics into a modern science. The Advances in Robotics and Virtual Reality is a compilation of emerging application areas of robotics. The book covers robotics role in medicine, space exploration and also explains the role of virtual reality as a non-destructive test bed which constitutes a premise of further advances towards new challenges in robotics. This book, edited by two famous scientists with the support of an outstanding team of fifteen authors, is a well suited reference for robotics researchers and scholars from related disciplines such as computer graphics, virtual simulation, surgery, biomechanics and neuroscience.

Current and Prospective Applications of Virtual Reality in Higher Education

Author : Choi, Dong Hwa
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799849619
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Current and Prospective Applications of Virtual Reality in Higher Education written by Choi, Dong Hwa and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last decade, virtual reality has been utilized in diverse fields such as entertainment, medicine, and industry. Recently, virtual reality has been applied in educational settings in order to transform student learning and experiences through such methods as building prototypes using digital devices or exploring new cultures through immersive interactions. Teachers who can incorporate virtual reality into their classrooms can provide their students with more meaningful learning experiences and can witness higher engagement. Current and Prospective Applications of Virtual Reality in Higher Education is a cutting-edge academic research book that provides comprehensive research on the integration of virtual reality in education programs and establishes foundations for course design, program development, and institutional strategic planning. The book covers an overall understanding and approach to virtual reality in education, specific applications of using virtual reality in higher education, and prospects and issues of virtual reality in the future. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as gamification, teacher training, and virtual reality, this book is ideal for teachers, instructional designers, curriculum developers, academicians, program developers, administrators, educational software developers, policymakers, researchers, education professionals, and students.

Virtual Reality: Visual Computation and Interfaces

Author : Dr.Rubini.P
Publisher : SK Research Group of Companies
ISBN 13 : 9364927524
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Reality: Visual Computation and Interfaces written by Dr.Rubini.P and published by SK Research Group of Companies. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr.Rubini.P, Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, CMR University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Cases on Virtual Reality Modeling in Healthcare

Author : Tang, Yuk Ming
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 179988791X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Cases on Virtual Reality Modeling in Healthcare written by Tang, Yuk Ming and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual reality (VR) provides immersive stereoscopic visualization of virtual environments, and the visualization effect and computer graphics are critical to enhancing the engagement of participants and achieving optimal education and training effectiveness. Constructing realistic 3D models and scenarios for a specific application of VR simulation is no easy task. There are many different tools for 3D modeling. However, many of the modeling tools are used for manufacturing and product design applications and have advanced features and functions which may not be applicable to different levels of users and various specializations. Cases on Virtual Reality Modeling in Healthcare introduces the use of Blender for VR 3D modeling, demonstrates healthcare applications, and examines potential uses in modeling, dressing, and animation in healthcare. Covering a range of topics such as cross reality, rehabilitation games, and augmented reality, this book is ideal for engineers, industry professionals, practitioners, researchers, academicians, instructors, and students.

Assessing the Therapeutic Uses and Effectiveness of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Video Games for Emotion Regulation and Stress Management

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Author : Federica Pallavicini
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889634132
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Assessing the Therapeutic Uses and Effectiveness of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Video Games for Emotion Regulation and Stress Management written by Federica Pallavicini and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virtual Reality: Visual Computation, Augmented and Mixed, I/O Interface

Author : Dr.J.Shobana
Publisher : SK Research Group of Companies
ISBN 13 : 8119980972
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Reality: Visual Computation, Augmented and Mixed, I/O Interface written by Dr.J.Shobana and published by SK Research Group of Companies. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr.J.Shobana, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.S.Nithya, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Mrs.G.S.Gayathri, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ramapuram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Mrs.H.Deepika, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.N.Jayashri Karthikeyan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ramapuram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.