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Product Description: This monograph provides the latest results on the nearfield of conventional straight-lined dipoles and monopoles. Shows the capabilities of optimization techniques for synthesizing curvilinear antennas which have unconventional geometries and surprising qualities...read more

Product Description: In this fictional autobiography, Ethel Rosenbergcondemned to death and protesting her innocencetells her own story.

Product Description: Leading international developers of interaction and image display techniques offer indispensable insight into how the two are being synthesized in a mutually beneficial way. Emphasizes practical cutting-edge methods which can be readily used in a wide variety of applications, to wit: providing a graphical user interface for collaborative computer systems; creating image databases, visualization, animation and virtual reality systems and other simulations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A toolkit for designing and building virtual reality software. This book/disk set includes scores of tips and codes for adding advanced features to virtual worlds for advanced C programmers, such as the ability to link up more than one person over a network or modem, 3D sound and animation...read more

Product Description: All the programming know-how and software tools you need to create INTELLIGENT characters for your games and virtual environments Are you becoming bored with VR characters who always do the expected? Want to interact with interesting, intelligent virtual opponents (and allies) who think, learn, and always offer new challenges? Now this book/CD supplies you with everything you need to create these kinds of entities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Machine Conversationsis a collection of some of the best research available in the practical arts of machine conversation. The book describes various attempts to create practical and flexible machine conversation - ways of talking to computers in an unrestricted version of English or some other language...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology -- or the idea -- so prevalent precisely now? What does it mean -- what does it do -- to us? Digital Sensations looks closely at the ways representational forms generated by communication technologies -- especially digital/optical virtual technologies -- affect the "lived" world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is based on contributions to the Seventh European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication that was held at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, in July of 1999 under the auspices of the European Language and Speech Network (ELSNET)...read more

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, and international case studies illustrating practical applications are all included in this guide. The author also provides a companion web site which provides online learning materials, including test-yourself questions, virtual reality models, and links to relevant sites, making it a valuable design resource and a stimulus for innovation.

Product Description: This book is a supplemental notes manual for the VI3 DVD training course purchasable at Amazon.com. In the 5 DVD training course, Larry Loucks former VMware consultant and virtualization expert provides valuable virtualization training and real-world expertise into proper setup and deployment of a virtual infrastructure...read more

Product Description: Virtual environments provide places for 'being there together', for avatars to interact with each other in computer-generated spaces. They range from immersive systems in which people have life-size tracked avatar bodies to large-scale spaces such as Second Life where populations of users socialize in persistent virtual worlds...read more

Product Description: While metaverse platforms are no longer a novel topic, they still pose challenges for the adaption of conventional research methodologies and communication practices.Virtual Worlds and Metaverse Platforms: New Communication and Identity Paradigms presents foundational research, models, case studies and research results that researchers and scholars can port to their own environments to evolve their own research processes and studies...read more

Product Description: Emergent technologies, including ambient intelligence and pervasive computing, promise a considerable advance in the way people use virtual communities, and new, innovative applications are making virtual communities more dynamic and usable than ever...read more

Product Description: Among virtual reality technologies, a multi-projection display is certainly the most attractive and challenging. Engineers and researchers in any number of fields are increasingly attracted by immersive multi-projection displays...read more