Virtual Reality Headsets - A Theoretical and Pragmatic Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367888350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Philippe Fuchs

Opis

Virtual reality allows a sensorimotor and cognitive activity for a user in a digitally created artificial world. Recent advances have led to new devices such as VR headsets or Head Mounted Displays. This book, a manual for both designers and users of virtual reality, presents the current state of knowledge on the use of VR headsets in the most comp

Spis treści

Introduction to Virtual Reality
Theoretical and pragmatic approach for virtual reality
Human senses
Visual interfaces
VR headsets
Interfaces used with VR headsets
Marketed products
Comfort and health
Recommendations and solutions
VR headsets applications: Industrial applications, digital arts, video 360 and researches in cognitive sciences

O autorze

Philippe Fuchs is professor at Mines ParisTech engineering school (Paris), and leader of their "Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality" team. The field of his research is the theoretical approach of VR and industrial applications. The team’s lines of research focus mainly on human "behavioural interfacing" in a virtual (or mixed real/virtual) world, by making judicious use of a person’s natural behaviour on sensory motor and mental levels. Their methodology for designing a VR system has been extended on the technical and psychological levels thanks to collaboration undertaken this year with ergonomists and psychologists. The team’s lines of research focus on visual interfaces, especially VR headsets and stereoscopic vision.