Virtual Reality Technology

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. About The Author: 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 has authored twenty books on robotics and virtual reality, which have been translated into several languages. Table Of Contents: Foreword Preface ?Introduction ?Input Devices: Trackers, Navigation, and Gesture Interfaces ?Output Devices: Graphics, Three-Dimensional Sound, and Haptic Displays ?Computing Architectures for VR ?5 Modeling ?VR Programming ?Human Factors in VR ?Traditional VR Applications ?Emerging Applications of VR References Index Special Features: Textbook for graduate and undergraduate students in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Computer Science.