Pictorial Communication in Real and Virtual Environments

by StephenEllis (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $12.48

  Current advances in computer processing power and hardware have enabled computer graphics to present new pictorial displays and representations, now popularly understood as virtual reality or VR. Conceived by and elicited from the laboratory responsibility, according to Howard Rheingold's book Virtual Reality , for the blast-off of VR technology in the mid 1980s, this book analyzes the communication that develops between human users and machines in both real and synthetic environments. The 39 internatioally authored chapters address the perceptual, physiological, scientific and engineering issues that impact on successful pictorial communication. Specific synthetic environments are exemplified in virtual imagery, head-mounted displays and panel munted pictorial display; real but unusual environments are encountered in extreme human activities like space travel.