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- There have been a couple of excellent, long articles
- posted to this group which give a good introduction to
- the area of virtual worlds research. I'd like to point
- people to a couple more references.
-
- A key theoretical book is "The Ecological Approach to
- Visual Perception" by James Gibson. This contains some
- of the major psychological grounding for much of
- today's current work, especially for the virtual
- environments work at NASA-Ames. This 1979 book
- concluded James Gibson's 50-year career in visual
- perception. The book challenges much of the
- traditional approach to visual perception, and is quite
- readable for people without much background in this
- area. If you are seriously interested in working in
- the virtual worlds area, I highly recommend reading
- this book. It's available in paper from Lawrence
- Erlbaum Associates in Hillsdale, New Jersey.
-
- There's also another general overview of the area that
- I'd recommend. This one gives more graphical
- explanations of how things like the DataGlove and
- Polhemus sensor work than the newsgroup articles. It's
- Steve Ditlea's article on "Another World: Inside
- Artificial Reality" from the November 1989 issue of
- PC/Computing, pp. 90-102.
-
- Michael Good
-
- Good@Baviki.Enet.Dec.Com
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-