Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies

Philippe Fuchs, Professor in Mines ParisTech, School of Engineering(Paris), is the leader of the « Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality » team.His field of research is the theoretical approach of VR and its applicationsin industry.Guillaume Moreau is Associate Professor at Ecole Centrale Nantes Schoolof Engineering and his research topics are GIS, Virtual and Augmented Realityand Computer vision.Pascal Guitton is full Professor at the University of Bordeaux. He isPresident of the French national association of Virtual Reality (AFRV) andthe Director of Research at INRIA.

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• 1. Introduction to virtual reality 2. Theoretical and pragmatic approach to virtual reality 3. Human senses 4. Interaction between virtual reality and behavioural sciences 5. Immersion and presence 6. Location sensors 7. Manual motor interfaces 8. Hardware devices of force feedback interfaces 9. Control of a force feedback interface 10. Tactile feedback interfaces 11. Visual interfaces 12. Interaction techniques for virtual behavioural primitives 13. Stereoscopic restitution of vision 14. Geometric models of virtual environments 15. Models for visual rendering 16. Models for haptic rendering 17. Collision detection