Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Virtual & Augmented Reality

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...

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 strategies. Virtual worlds are not considered objects that exist as entities with fixed attributes independent of our continuous engagement with them and interpretation of them. Instead, they are conceived of as complex ensembles of technology, humans, symbols, discourses, and economic...