Virtual reality

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 gathers a collection of selected works and new research results of scholars and graduate students presented at the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2022) via the Internet, during July 22-24 2022, hosted and organized by Sojo University in conjunction with other three universities and Beijing Huaxia Rongzhi Blockchain Technology Institute.

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.

The overall subject of the book is visual culture.

This book focuses on the challenges to biomedical education posed by the lockdowns and restrictions to on campus teaching brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the tools and digital visualization technologies that have been successfully developed and used for remote teaching.

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

This book addresses emerging issues in usability, interface design, human-computer interaction, user experience and assistive technology.

When studying medicine, healthcare, and medical sciences disciplines, learners are frequently required to visualise and understand complex three-dimensional concepts.

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

The book focuses on original approaches intended to support the development of biologically inspired cognitive architectures.

In this ground-breaking book, we navigate the uncharted terrain of social virtual reality (VR), a technology that, while offering unprecedented immersive experiences, brings forth significant governance challenges.

This book highlights the numerous potentials and concerns involved with using the metaverse.

The overall subject of the book is visual culture.

Digitalization and automation are leading to fundamental changes in the industrial landscape.

The last century has seen enormous leaps in the development of digital technologies, and most aspects of modern life have changed significantly with their widespread availability and use.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the role of immersive technology with multiple sectoral perspectives, such as entertainment, education, health care, and more.

As virtual reality approaches mainstream consumer use, a vibrant development ecosystem has emerged in the past few years.

This monograph delves into recent evolutions in virtual reality (VR) storytelling, focusing on entertainment-based works created or launched since 2020.

The book addresses themes such as visual perception, perception of 3-D and stereo.

Presented as an engaging discourse, this textbook invites readers to delve into the historical origins and uses of geometry.

Augmented and Virtual Reality are revolutionizing present and future technologies: these are the fastest growing and most fascinating areas of technologies at present.

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of modeling and simulation tools, including virtual and mixed-reality environment, for human factors research.

This book concisely describes the technologies, human perception, and cognition issues relevant to autonomous vehicles.

The book discusses how augmented intelligence can increase the efficiency and speed of diagnosis in healthcare organizations.

This book is an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts interested in unraveling the potential and promises of virtual reality, delving into its applications, challenges, and the exciting path that lies ahead.

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.

This book focuses on designing and being a designer of immersive education.

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

From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike.

Why do we need to live in a smart city?

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

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

This book features the papers presented at IWAR 2023.

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

This is a pioneering study of virtuality through human history: ancient-to-modern evolution and recent expansion; expression in many fields (chapters on Religion; Philosophy, Math, Physics; Literature and the Arts; Economics; Nationhood, Government and War; Communication); psychological and social reasons for its universality; inter-relationship with "e;reality.

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.

THIS ISN'T AN EPISODE OF BLACK MIRROR.

This Switzerland-Japan Joint Seminar on Multimedia and Databases was held to achieve at least three goals.

This book provides extensive research into the use of augmented reality in the three interconnected and overlapping fields of the tourism industry, museum exhibitions, and cultural heritage.

The decades of the 1970s and 1980s were a very exciting period of discovery in the field of computer graphics.

This book focuses on designing and being a designer of immersive education.

Presents 11 design principles for integrating augmented reality technology into training recognition skills for high stakes jobs.

This book proposes a novel body image to bridge gap between self-transformation and preserving sense of self: the Jizai body.

Die Entwicklung des Internets, insbesondere des WWW, stößt aktuell an ihre Grenzen – sowohl technisch als auch sozio-kulturell und ökonomisch.