Designing Virtual Reality Systems The Structured Approach

• Main Author: Kim, Gerard Jounghyun (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2005.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer simulation.; Computer graphics.; Multimedia systems.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Media Design.; Software Engineering.; Simulation and Modeling.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a field of study that aims to create a system that provides a synthetic experience for its users. Developing and maintaining a VR system is a very difficult task, requiring in-depth knowledge in many different disciplines, such as sensing and tracking technologies, stereoscop...

Table of Contents:

• Basics of Designing Virtual Reality Systems
• Introduction: Virtual Reality in a Nutshell
• Requirements Engineering and Storyboarding
• Object and Scene Modeling
• Putting It All Together
• Performance Estimation and System Tuning
• Creating the Virtual Reality
• Output Display
• Sensors and Input Processing
• 3D Multimodal Interaction Design
• Simulation I: Collision Detection
• Simulation II: Physics-Based Motion and Collision Response
• Virtual Characters.