Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design

Woodrow Barfield
Hardcover - $254.95

This sweeping introduction to the science of virtual environment technology masterfully integrates research and practical applications culled from such disciplines as psychology, engineering, and computer science. With contributions from the field's ...

Presence and Popular Media : Understanding Media Users' Everyday Experiences

Bracken Cheryl
Other - $189.95

Presence and Popular Media : Understanding Media Users' Everyday Experiences

Bracken Cheryl
Paperback - $76.95

Virtual Reality Technology with CDROM

Grigore Burdea
Hardcover - $281.95

A groundbreaking Virtual Reality textbook is now even better

Virtual reality is a very powerful and compelling computer application by which humans interact with computer-generated environments in a way that mimics real life and engages various se ...

Virtual Storytelling : Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling

Marc Cavazza
Paperback - $114.95

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS 2007, held in Saint-Malo, France, in December 2007.

The 12 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers and 7 poster a ...

Mirror Worlds : Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean

David Hillel Gelernter
Paperback - $78.95

Imagine looking at your computer screen and seeing reality--an image of your city, for instance, complete with moving traffic patterns, or a picture that sketches the state of an entire corporation at this second. These representations are called ...

The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality

Michael Heim
Paperback - $62.95

As we begin to move in and out of a computer-generated world, Michael Heim asks, how will the way we perceive our world change? With a warm-hearted, cool-headed meditation on computer technology, Heim opens a window on a fascinating cosmos that promi ...

Virtual Realism

Michael Heim
Paperback - $86.95

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 incre ...

Digital Sensations : Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality

Ken Hillis
Paperback - $49.95

Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology -- or the idea -- so prevalent precisely now? What does it mean -- what does it do -- to us? Digital Sensations looks closely at the ways representational f ...

Being There - Concepts, Effects and Measurements of User Presence in Synthetic Environments

G. Riva
Hardcover - $236.95