Virtual Reality category: 184 books
by Dennis Vroegop
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Transform the ways you communicate, create, collaborate, and explore using Microsoft HoloLens
About This Book
Create immersive augmented reality apps for Microsoft HoloLens from scratch
Leverage the powerful HoloLens sensors to interact with real-world motions and gestures and make your app life-like
Explore...
Metaplasticity in Virtual Worlds
Aesthetics and Semantic Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The concept of virtual worlds is strongly related to the current innovations of new media communication. As such, it is increasingly imperative to understand the criteria for creating virtual worlds as well as the evolution in system architecture, information visualization and human interaction. Meta-plasticity...
Multi-User Virtual Environments for the Classroom
Practical Approaches to Teaching in Virtual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The future success of education depends on technological and pedagogical innovation. Unbridled by the physical constraints of both time and space, virtual spaces transcend many limitations of the typical classroom, where learning depends on presence and physicality. Multi-User Virtual Environments for...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Cognitive architectures represent an umbrella term to describe ways in which the flow of thought can be engineered towards cerebral and behavioral outcomes. Cognitive Architectures are meant to provide top-down guidance, a knowledge base, interactive heuristics and concrete or fuzzy policies for which...
User Interface Design for Virtual Environments
Challenges and Advances
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
The design of various virtual environments should be based on the needs of a diverse population of users around the globe. Interface design should be user centric and should strive for making the user's interaction as simple, meaningful, and efficient as possible. User Interface Design for Virtual Environments:...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Virtual communities have gained popularity in many growing fields and have continued to expand into healthcare environments. Analyzing the impact these communities have can help provide more effective methods to support patients and community members. Novel Applications of Virtual Communities in Healthcare...
Researching Virtual Worlds
Methodologies for Studying Emergent Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This volume presents a wide range of methodological strategies that are designed to take into account the complex, emergent, and continually shifting character of virtual worlds. It interrogates how virtual worlds emerge as objects of study through the development and application of various methodological...
The Proteus Paradox
How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-And How They Don't
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Proteus, the mythical sea god who could alter his appearance at will, embodies one of the promises of online games: the ability to reinvent oneself. Yet inhabitants of virtual worlds rarely achieve this liberty, game researcher Nick Yee contends. Though online games evoke freedom and escapism, Yee shows...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Emerging new technologies such as digital media have helped artists to position art into the everyday lives and activities of the public. These new virtual spaces allow artists to utilize a more participatory experience with their audience. Digital Media and Technologies for Virtual Artistic Spaces brings...
Teaching through Multi-User Virtual Environments
Applying Dynamic Elements to the Modern Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
In the last few years, educators have become familiar with the concept of online education through the use of tools such as “Blackboard,” “WebCT,” and other online course delivery systems. Teaching through Multi-User Virtual Environments: Applying Dynamic Elements to the Modern Classroom highlights...
Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education
Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Higher education is facing a renaissance in terms of its approaches to teaching and learning and the use of physical and virtual spaces. Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment documents real-world experiences of innovators in higher education...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Virtual learning environments offer a novel environment through which teachers can engage students in active learning. Whether through virtual worlds such as Second Life or a custom-designed personal learning environment, together students and teachers can explore new boundaries in education. Design,...
by Janet Amber
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Thank you for your interest in this booklet. The "The Basics" series, is a series of booklets designed to help you get the basics or foundations about a subject. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason the Amber siblings have created...
Virtual Learning Environments
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
As the world rapidly moves online, sectors from management, industry, government, and education have broadly begun to virtualize the way people interact and learn. Virtual Learning Environments: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications is a three-volume compendium of the latest research, case...