Artificial reality

''Artificial reality'' is a book series by Myron W. Krueger about interactive immersive environments (or virtual realities), based on video recognition techniques, that put a user in full, unencumbered contact with the digital world. He started this work in the late 1960s and is considered to be a key figure in the early innovation of virtual reality. For 16 years Krueger was creating a computer system that connected the actions of a user to the real-time response of visual and auditory displays. ''Artificial Reality'' was published in 1983 and updated in ''Artificial Reality II'' in 1991 (both published by Addison-Wesley). ''Artificial Reality II'' was to explore the concept of 'Videoplace', which is when a users body is implemented into a computer created world full of color, sound, and visuals. Whilst the first iteration of the series ''Artificial Reality'' has laid the ground work for different branches of computer-generated worlds like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Visualization is key for all artificial realities to efficiently use data; resulting in being able to utilize human sensory systems that create these artificial realities.

References

External links

* Myron Krueger. ''Artificial Reality'', Addison-Wesley, 1983.
* Myron Krueger. ''Artificial Reality 2'', Addison-Wesley Professional, 1991.
* Kalawsky, R. S. (1993). The science of virtual reality and virtual environments : a technical, scientific and engineering reference on virtual environments, Addison-Wesley, Wokingham, England ; Reading, Mass
* Rheingold, H. (1992). Virtual reality, Simon & Schuster, New York, N.Y.

Series of non-fiction books
Addison-Wesley books
Computer science books
Multimodal interaction
Virtual reality

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