Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Virtual & Augmented Reality

With the emergence of virtual reality and augmented reality, the era of interactive multimedia streaming looms on the horizon. Network latency emerges as a critical factor in the performance of interactive multimedia streaming applications. As the demand for interactive multimedia streaming continues to surge, comprehending and mitigating the challenges posed by network latency becomes increasingly imperative.

This book begins by introducing the fundamentals of network latency, elucidating its sources from both data plane and control plane, along with its effects on user experience....

As an efficient 3D vision solution, point clouds have been widely applied into diverse engineering scenarios, including immersive media communication, autonomous driving, reverse engineering, robots, topography mapping, digital twin city, medical analysis, digital museum, etc. Thanks to the great developments of deep learning theories and methods, 3D point cloud technologies have undergone fast growth during the past few years, including diverse processing and understanding tasks. Human and machine perception can be benefited from the success of using deep learning approaches, which can...

Medicine and the biological sciences have long relied on visualizations to illustrate the relationship between anatomic structure and biologic function. The new multidimensional imaging modalities are powerful counterparts to traditional forms of observation–surgery, postmortem examination, or extensive mental reconstruction. VR technologies have reached unimagined levels of sophistication and utility, giving physicians and students new avenues for planning and...

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures(R), a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? And in this book--a chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlooker to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and...

The amazing growth and popularity of the Internet means more opportunities to learn Responding to the tremendous interest in their previous volume (Virtual Field Trips, Libraries Unlimited, 1997) and to specific requests from users, Cooper and Cooper bring you a host of new and exciting sites for educational field trips into cyberspace. The new trips and topics reflect current curricular requirements and goals such as business, women's history, conflict resolution, and multiculturalism. Trips for physically and emotionally challenged students and for those who wish to get to know them...

This book deals with virtual environments for teaching and learning. The chapters can be considered to be representative of the many approaches taken and the diversity of applications. The different perspectives and different solutions adopted are the result of intense research in...

In this book, various aspects of cognitive and emotional behaviour are described. The book gives examples of some advances that enable VH to behave intelligently. It further provides an overview of these research problems and some unsolved problems.

Virtual meetings are on the rise. Unfortunately, most meeting leaders don't know the strategies for executing masterful virtual meetings. As a result, most virtual meetings:

• Don't start on time because people have difficulty with the technology
• Don't have a defined purpose due to lack of preparation
• Don't keep people engaged due to escalated multi-tasking
• Don't address conflict because the leader often doesn't see the body language information that...

Design and deploy a high-performance cloud-based enterprise IT platform with guidance from a VMware expert. Featuring tips, techniques, and best practices, VMware vSphere 4 Implementation explains how to dramatically cut hardware costs, maximize computing power, and centralize system administration. Configure hardware and storage devices, build virtual machines and networks, install guest operating systems, and import physical machines. Security, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and system updates are also...