Virtual Reality in Geography 1st Edition by Peter Fisher, David Unwin 074840905X 9780748409051

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ISBN 10: 074840905X 

ISBN 13: 9780748409051

Author: Peter Fisher, David Unwin

The ideas and techniques of virtual reality are now being made available for the creation of artificial or virtual geographies (a virtual geography refers to the creation of artificial geographies for use in research and teaching, using ideas and techniques from the field of virtual reality (VR)). Such virtual geographies are currently being constructed and used at a number of sites and include virtual cities, landscape visualization, visualizing past and future geographies, visualizing abstract concepts and taking people on virtual field courses.

Virtual Reality in Geography covers ‘through the window’ VR systems, ‘fully immersive’ VR systems and hybrids of the two types. The authors examine the Virtual Reality Modeling Language approach, and explore its deficiencies when applied to real geographic environments. This book will be of great interest to geographers, computer scientists and all those interested in multimedia and computer graphics. There is an accompanying CD-ROM containing a rich selection of images and pieces of virtual reality software.
This is a totally unique book covering an area of geography that is rapidly becoming used in all aspects of the field. It covers all the major uses and methods of virtual reality used by geographers and the lack of anything else written about the subject to date should ensure a wide readership. The authors have produced a CDROM that comes with the book of virtual reality images that will be a fascinating companion to the text.

Table of contents:

1 Virtual reality in geography An introduction

Part I Introduction to VR and technology

2 Geography in VR Context

3 Virtual archaeologies and the hyper-real Or, what does it mean to describe something as virtually-real?

4 Web-based virtual environments

5 Virtual reality and GIS Applications, trends and directions

6 Visual exploration of virtual environments

7 Creating information-rich virtual environments with geo-referenced digital panoramic imagery

Part II Virtual landscapes

8 Introduction

9 Visualizing sustainable agricultural landscapes

10 The application of VR modelling in assessing potential visual impacts of rural development

11 Multi-resolution virtual environments as a visualization front-end to GIS

12 Visualizing the structure and scale dependency of landscapes

13 Providing context in virtual reality The example of a CAL package for mountain navigation

14 A Tour of the Tors

Part III Virtual cities

15 Introduction

16 Data collection issues in virtual reality for urban geographical representation and modelling

17 Virtual world heritage cities The ancient Thai city of Ayutthaya reconstructed

18 Visualizing data components of the urban scene

19 Virtuality and cities Definitions, geographies, designs

Part IV ‘Other’ worlds

20 ‘Other’ worlds Augmented, comprehensible, non-material spaces

21 Explorations in AlphaWorld The geography of 3D virtual worlds on the Internet

22 Visualizing data quality through interactive metadata browsing

23 ‘There’s no there there’ Virtual reality, space and geographic visualization

24 Virtual reality An exploratory tool for investigating the cognitive mapping and navigational skills of visually-impaired people

25 Multi-modal virtual reality for presenting geographic information

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