Artificial life and virtual reality
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Artificial life and virtual reality
Wiley, c1994
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Library, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University数研
C-P||Geneva||1993.1195009083
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The technology which once produced the first synthetic human today includes the simulation of human behaviour processes, associated with consciousness and the emotions. When a computer creates artificial life, its synthetic creatures demonstrate the behaviour patterns of real living beings. This book investigates the technological advances which allow artificial life to be placed within a virtual setting, where the human user can meet and interact with synthetic beings people, animals or plants in a complete simulation of the real world. It introduces new concepts such as artificial consciousness, artificial presence, artificial autonomy and artificial perception; and discusses important results in the development of immersive and auditory virtual environments, and co-operative work.
Table of Contents
Partial table of contents: Unpredictability--Another Word for Freedom...And If Machines Were Free? (G. Kirsch). Simulating the Life of Virtual Plants, Fishes and Butterflies (H. Noser & D. Thalmann). Introduction to Embryonics: Towards Self-Repairing and Self-Reproducing Hardware Based on Biological-like Properties (D. Mange & A. Stauffer). Artificial Consciousness (I. Aleksander). Managing Entities for an Autonomous Behaviour (M. Courant, et al.). A Constructivist Approach for Autonomous Agents (P. Gaussier & S. Zrehen). Body Centered Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments (M. Slater & M. Usoh). Manipulation and Exploration of Virtual Objects (M. Bergamasco). Fundamentals of Auditory Virtual Environment (H. Lehnert). Realism in Virtual Reality (P. Astheimer, et al.). Index.
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