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Create your own virtual reality system /

Levy, Joseph, 1934-

Create your own virtual reality system / Joseph R. Levy, Harley Bjelland. - New York : Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, c1995. - xxx, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. +

Includes index.

Applications (history and background). Interactive Gaming (what's available, how much it costs). Real-Time Image Generators (how they work, which are the best programs, how to use them). Other Graphics Products (how much they costs, what you need to know to use them) Hardware (gloves, helmets' and much;more, where to get them, how to put them all together). Desktop Systems (limits and benefits, uses). Resources (what to read, where to turn for more information, groups to join, training). TOC

Focusing on affordable virtual-reality products designed for the desktop, this book explains how to assemble a complete virtual-reality system at home. The accompanying disk includes graphics programs from NASA, sample 3-D architecture and other VR demos.



0070376514 0070376522 (pbk.)

94020186


Human-computer interaction.
Virtual reality.

QA76.9.H85 / L48 1995

003 / LEC 1994