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"John Chu is a "sherpa"--a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse. Chu's new client, the pseudonymous Mr. Jones, claims to be a "wealthy, famous person"...
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A K Peters
Pub. Date
©2007
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1 online resource (xv, 588 pages) : illustrations
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English
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality brings together under one cover all the aspects of graphics, video, audio, and haptics that have to work together to make virtual reality a reality. Like any good guide, it reveals the practical things you need to know, from the viewpoint of authors who have been there. This two-part guide covers the science, technology, and mathematics of virtual reality and then details its practical implementation. The first...
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For Dummies
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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English
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An easy-to-understand primer on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are driving the next technological revolution. If you want to get in on the action, this book helps you understand what these technologies are, their history, how they're being used, and how they'll affect consumers both personally and professionally in the very near future. With VR and AR poised to become mainstream within the next...
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"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of...
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Apress
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 online resource
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English
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Apply the techniques needed to build VR applications for mobile and standalone head-mounted displays (HMDs) using the Unreal Engine. This book covers the entire VR ecosystem including production tools, Unreal engine, workflows, performance and optimization, and presents two fully-developed projects to reinforce what you've learned. Media designers, CG artists and other creatives will be able to take advantage of real-time engine techniques and easy-to-learn...
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Packt Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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This book takes you on a journey to create intuitive and interactive Virtual Reality experiences by creating your first VR application using React VR 2.0.0. It starts by getting you up to speed with Virtual Reality (VR) and React VR components. It teaches you what Virtual Reality (VR) really is, why it works, how to describe 3D objects, the installation of Node.js (version 9.2.0) and WebVR browser. You will learn 3D polygon modeling, texturing, animating...
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Morgan Kaufmann
Pub. Date
©2009
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1 online resource (xv, 382 pages) : illustrations
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English
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Virtual Reality has turned the corner from being a mere laboratory novelty to become a valuable tool with practical applications in many fields. From best-selling VR guru Bill Sherman comes Developing Virtual Reality Applications - a comprehensive compendium that examines over 50 unique and foundational VR applications in Business, Science, Medicine, Education, Spatial Studies, Public Safety, and Entertainment industries. Each chapter contains one...
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Info-line volume issue 0803
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ASTD Press
Pub. Date
2008
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
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English
9) Existenz
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Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
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1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A designer of a virtual reality game is hunted by an assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation.
10) Heir apparent
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Series
Rasmussem Corporation volume 2
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English
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While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.
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Packt Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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Unveil the world of mixed reality with HoloLens About This Book Bring holographic insights to existing line-of-business applications, tools, and workflows Focus on developing end-to-end realistic holographic application. Build interactive model scripts and test them in Unity3D and holographic emulators Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at developers and designers working on mixed-reality developments for complex integrated scenarios using...
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O'Reilly
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 online resource (1 streaming video file (1 hr., 34 min., 59 sec.)) : digital, sound, color
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English
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"This course covers all the steps required to create a Unity 3D scene and deploy it as a virtual reality scene. You'll learn about the Unity game engine, who uses it, and the distinctions between the GoogleVR, Samsung Gear VR, and Oculus virtual reality platforms. The course uses a project approach where the learner builds an actual city scene in 3D and then deploys it as a virtual reality scene ready for viewing."--Resource description page.
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Pearson Education [distributor]
Pub. Date
2007
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1 online resource (134 pages) : illustrations
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English
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What is an avatar? Why are there nearly a billion of them, and who is using them? Do avatars impact our real lives, or are they just video game conceits? Is an avatar an inspired rendering of its creator's inner self, or is it just one among millions of anonymous vehicles clogging the online freeways? Can we use our avatars to really connect with people, or do they just isolate us? And as we become more like our avatars do they become more like us?...
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Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxv, 352 page) : illustrations
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English
Description
Learn How to Create Immersive Virtual EnvironmentsWritten by an award-winning designer with 20 years of experience designing virtual environments for television and online communities, Virtual World Design explores the intertwining disciplines of 2D graphics, 3D models, lighting, sound, and storytelling. It illustrates how these disciplines come together by design in the creation of an accessible virtual environment for teaching, research, and entertainment....
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O'Reilly Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
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First edition.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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Today's interaction designers generally operate within well-researched and documented constraints for both web and mobile applications--but not for much longer. By mixing the real and virtual worlds, new products such as Hololens, DAQRI, Meta, and Magic Leap clearly demonstrate that designers no longer have to confine user interfaces to a screen. In this O'Reilly report, author Kharis O'Connell guides you through the new realm of mixed reality. You'll...
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New Riders
Pub. Date
©2004
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1 online resource (xxi, 741 pages)
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English
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Designing Virtual Worlds is the most comprehensive treatment of virtual world design to-date from one of the true pioneers and most sought-after design consultants. It's a tour de force of VW design, stunning in intellectual scope, spanning the literary, economic, sociological, psychological, physical, technological, and ethical underpinnings of design, while providing the reader with a deep, well-grounded understanding of VW design principles. It...
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Publisher
Packt Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
Description
Transform the ways you communicate, create, collaborate, and explore using Microsoft HoloLens About This Book Create immersive augmented reality apps for Microsoft HoloLens from scratch Leverage the powerful HoloLens sensors to interact with real-world motions and gestures and make your app life-like Explore the powerful Unity 5 SDK along with the Windows Unified platform to get the most out of your HoloLens app Who This Book Is For If you are a developer...
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Publisher
O'Reilly
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 streaming video file (4 hr., 16 min., 7 sec.)) : digital, sound, color
Language
English
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"Get started on your VR journey with this detailed overview of the hardware, development processes, and toolsets used to deliver VR experiences for desktop, mobile, and web systems. Taught by the VR industry veteran Tony Parisi, this course will swing open the 3D doors of wonder to any expert developer, entry level developer, or technically savvy artist eager to enter."--Resource description page.
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