Virtual Reality in Geography

The ideas and techniques of virtual reality are now being made available for the creation of artificial geographies. Such virtual geographies are currently being constructed and used by many researchers, and include virtual cities, landscape visualisation, visualising past and future geographies, visualising abstract concepts, and virtual field courses. This book covers through the window VR systems, fully immersive VR systems and hybrids of the two types, it examines the Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) approach, and explores the deficiencies of VR when applied to real, geographic environments. Both geographers and computer scientists should find this a very useful work, and the accompanying CD-ROM contains a rich selection of images and VR models. Book jacket.