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A groundbreaking Virtual Reality textbook is now even better
Virtual reality is a very powerful and compelling computer application by which humans can interface and interact with computer-generated environments in a way that mimics real life and engages all the senses. Although its most widely known application is in the entertainment industry, the real promise of virtual reality lies in such fields as medicine, engineering, oil exploration and the military, to name just a few. Through virtual reality scientists can triple the rate of oil discovery, pilots can dogfight numerically-superior "bandits," and surgeons can improve their skills on virtual (rather than real) patients.
This Second Edition of the first comprehensive technical book on the subject of virtual reality provides updated and expanded coverage of the technology—where it originated, how it has evolved, and where it is going. The authors cover all of the latest innovations and applications that are making virtual reality more important than ever before, including:
- Coverage on input and output interfaces including touch and force feedback
- Computing architecture (with emphasis on the rendering pipeline and task distribution)
- Object modeling (including physical and behavioral aspects)
- Programming for virtual reality
- An in-depth look at human factors issues, user performance, and
- sensorial conflict aspects of VR
- Traditional and emerging VR applications
The new edition of Virtual Reality Technology is specifically designed for use as a textbook. Thus it includes definitions, review questions, and a Laboratory Manual with homework and programming assignments. The accompanying CD-ROM also contains video clips that reinforce the topics covered in the textbook. The Second Edition will serve as a state-of-the-art resource for both graduate and undergraduate students in engineering, computer science, and other disciplines.
GRIGORE C. BURDEA is a professor at Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey, and author of the book Force and Touch Feedback for Virtual Reality, also published by Wiley.
PHILIPPE COIFFET is a Director of Research at CNRS (French National Scientific Research Center) and Member of the National Academy of Technologies of France. He authored 20 books on Robotics and VR translated into several languages.
An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the author's website. http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/vrtechnology/
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- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press; 2 edition (June 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0471360899
- ISBN-13: 978-0471360896
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Dr. Grigore Burdea and Dr. Philippe Coiffet have years of experience in the field of virtual reality, and Virtual Reality Technology reflects their combined expertise, to the benefit of all. I used the first edition as a required textbook in my undergraduate and graduate virtual reality courses for many years, almost from the time it was published in 1994. I am now going to use the second edition in my classes.Instructors in need of a textbook for undergraduate or graduate introductory virtual reality courses, students looking for a guide to the field of VR, persons interested in knowing something about the current state of virtual reality, and practitioners, researchers, and businesses involved in VR, will all find this a must-have book.
Like the first edition of Virtual Reality Technology, the second edition is a book that provides an enormous amount of information. Because of its coverage of all the important areas of VR, it is the perfect textbook. The inclusion of a CD-ROM, which contains well-chosen video clips and a laboratory manual with programming assignments, adds to the book's usefulness for students. The manual uses VRML and Java 3D languages, which are free and thus reduce the cost of creating VR teaching laboratories in connection with the book.
The book includes mathematical and technical background and explanations, for courses that need that information. As a further aid to instructors and students, this textbook edition has review questions at the end of each chapter. Rounding out the list of valuable teaching aids, there is a companion website for instructors at [...] with additional teaching material, such as sample term projects, quiz and exam examples, and lecture notes.
I am honored to review "Virtual Reality Technology," Second Edition by Dr. Grigore Burdea and Dr. Philippe Coiffet.I was so impressed with both editions of this textbook that I adopted it for courses I've taught at several universities. Since introducing the text to my students, I've received positive comments and feedback. I have also used the authors' techniques in my research. Their work has helped lay the pioneering groundwork for much of the research being done to advance the field of Virtual Reality Therapy.
Because of my personal commitment to the field of Virtual Reality Therapy, I think it is fitting to acknowledge that one of the simplest and most powerful working definitions of virtual reality is offered by the authors in the second edition of their book, gives the three "I"s of virtual reality. The three "I"s make a triangle of Immersion, Interaction, and Imagination. Most virtual reality researchers and enthusiasts are familiar with the first two "I"s, essentials to a virtual reality system. The introduction of the third "I" by Burdea and Coiffet makes their interpretation and philosophy of virtual reality unique and innovative. This insight is inspiring and is complemented by empirical data that supports the belief that imagination (or what the user brings to the environment), compared to immersion and interaction, is the most important feature of any virtual reality system. This brilliant view is a tremendous contribution to our field.
Although the first edition was written as a research review rather than a textbook, the second edition has tremendously enhanced the field. It has developed into a textbook as well as a major resource reference for researchers and practitioners.
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