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Virtual Reality and the Built Environment by Jennifer Whyte is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Virtual Reality and the Built Environment about?

This is the first text to focus on virtual reality applications for design of the built environment. This guide explores the use of virtual reality at the practical level. It provides an overview of industrial applications of virtual reality and explores relevant scientific research.Virtual Reality in the Built Environment is a guide to the practical uses of virtual design, construction, and management. Providing an overview of industrial applications for virtual reality and exploring relevant research, this book is an accessible and innovative resource for architects, designers and built environment professionals--bridging the gap between technological vision and current practice.Author Jennifer Whyte shows how interactive, spatial, real-time technologies can radically improve modelling and communication of ideas, enable partcipation in the design process, and facilitated planning and management at the urban scale. The experience of lead users of virtual reality is used as the basis for understanding its promise and problems. Explanations of the underlying principles of this exciting interactive medium, a discussion of the cognitive, technical and organizational issues it raises,

Who reads Virtual Reality and the Built Environment?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Jennifer Whyte
Publisher
Oxford ; Boston Architectural Press
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780080520667
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Engineering, Mathematics, Architecture

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