Virtual reality

This edited book explores the use of technology to enable us to visualize the life sciences in a more meaningful and engaging way.

Why do we need to live in a smart city?

No longer relegated to just the classroom, learning has become universal through the use of social media.

With the emergence of virtual reality and augmented reality, the era of interactive multimedia streaming looms on the horizon.

As the second volume of the "e;Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline: Research and Practice"e; series of monographs, this book introduces the implementation strategies, examples and technical roadmaps of two important aspects of the Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline construction: pipeline real-time data integration and pipeline network virtual reality system.

The metaverse, a hybrid society of the real and the virtual is attracting significant attention from academia to industry and is starting to change the world.

The development of the internet, particularly the World Wide Web, is currently hitting its limits-both technically and socio-culturally, as well as economically.

This edited volume discusses the topic of immersion, approaching it from the perspective of various media and stakeholders: experiencers and creators.

This book explores one way in which recent hardware and software advances have placed humanity on the precipice of a significant shift in how technology can shape our interactions with the world around us: the application of transformative extended reality (XR) technology solutions to support the health, wellness, quality of life, and independence of older adults living with and without cognitive impairments.

This book presents original research on language teacher education (LTE) activities in digital spaces, making use of a multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA) approach to examine multiple datasets and bring new insights into the theory, research, and practice of second/foreign language teacher education.

Virtual and Augmented Reality have existed for a long time but were stuck to the research world or to some large manufacturing companies.

Augmented Reality (AR) blurs the boundary between the physical and digital worlds.

Most of our everyday life experiences are multisensory in nature; that is, they consist of what we see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and much more.

Virtual environments provide places for 'being there together', for avatars to interact with each other in computer-generated spaces.

Learn virtualization skills by building your own virtual machine Virtualization Essentials, Second Edition provides new and aspiring IT professionals with immersive training in working with virtualization environments.

With disruptive technologies on the horizon, traditional employment models are becoming outdated.

The long-standing cultural imperative of augmenting human intellect continues to move ever closer to its full manifestation, described by Marshall McLuhan as an extension of the human nervous system.

Heritage sites across the world have witnessed a number of natural calamities, sabotage and damage from visitors, resulting in their present ruined condition.

3D point clouds have broad applications across various industries and have contributed to advancements in fields such as autonomous driving, immersive media, metaverse, and cultural heritage protection.

This book explores how after 20 years of existence, virtual world games have evolved: the social landscapes within digital worlds have become rigid and commodified, and "e;play"e; and "e;fun"e; have become rational and mechanical products.

An In Depth Look at Virtual Reality summarizes research findings relating to virtual reality implementation for pain assessment and treatment, reviewing the literature in pediatric and adult pain care for acute and chronic conditions across several pain populations.

Vladislav Golyanik proposes several new methods for dense non-rigid structure from motion (NRSfM) as well as alignment of point clouds.

Drawing on the art historical framing of Location, Place, and Identity, this book will examine how the factors of Immersion, Presence, and Interactivity of XR are shaping our understanding of the world and our place within it.

Contemporary research in science and engineering is seeking to harness the versatility and sustainability of living organisms.

Metaverse is an emerging trend these days.

The digital age we now live in is fundamentally changing how we relate to our perceptions and images.

The book includes original unpublished contributions presented in First International Conference on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Smart Applications (RAAISA 2023), organized by Department of CSE, University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India during 14 - 15 December 2023.

This LNCS conference set constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Extended Reality, ICXR 2024, Xiamen, China, held during November 14–17, 2024.

This book is the first research monograph that explores a new research field and practical applications produced by the combined use of two of the most advanced and powerful technologies available in today's world - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR).

The recent shift in labour markets has heightened the demand for alternative work arrangements.

This book features the papers presented at IWAR 2023.

Few technologies in recent years have attracted as much scientific, media and public attention as Virtual Reality.

Explore the possibilities spatial computing and its integration with AI can provide beyond the confines of a traditional user interface.

This book provides excellent examples of metaverse and virtual reality and their unlimited possibilities for education and industry.

The digital age we now live in is fundamentally changing how we relate to our perceptions and images.

This book features original papers from 25th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2020), jointly organized by National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, during 8-9 October 2020.

This book explores how after 20 years of existence, virtual world games have evolved: the social landscapes within digital worlds have become rigid and commodified, and "e;play"e; and "e;fun"e; have become rational and mechanical products.

This book has a multidisciplinary approach to Metaverse studies and the relevance of Metaverse with the current and popular topics that concern society and how it will change them in the future.

Vollständig realistische Erfahrungen in einer virtuellen Welt anbieten: Darum geht es bei Immersiver Virtueller Realität.

This book gathers the recent advances in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

Over the last decades, the interior of cars has been constantly changing.

Despite popular forays into augmented and virtual reality in recent years, spatial computing still sits on the cusp of mainstream use.