Virtual reality in geography

1. Virtual reality in geography: an introduction / Peter Fisher and David Unwin

Pt. I. Introduction to VR and technology

2. Geography in VR: context / Ken Brodlie, Jason Dykes and Mark Gillings / [et al.]

3. Virtual archaeologies and the hyper-real: or, what does it mean to describe something as virtually-real? / Mark Gillings

4. Web-based virtual environments / Ken Brodlie and Nuha El-Khalili

5. Virtual reality and GIS: applications, trends and directions / Mordechay E. Haklay

6. Visual exploration of virtual environments / Menno-Jan Kraak

7. Creating information-rich virtual environments with geo-referenced digital panoramic imagery / Jason Dykes

Pt. II. Virtual landscapes

8. Introduction / Iain M. Brown, David B. Kidner and Andrew Lovett / [et al.]

9. Visualizing sustainable agricultural landscapes / Andrew Lovett, Richard Kennaway and Gilla Sunnenberg / [et al.]

10. application of VR modelling in assessing potential visual impacts of rural development / David R. Miller, Roger A. Dunham and Weiso Chen

11. Multi-resolution virtual environments as a visualization front-end to GIS / Iain M. Brown, David B. Kidner and J. Mark Ware

12. Visualizing the structure and scale dependency of landscapes / Jo Wood

13. Providing context in virtual reality: the example of a CAL package for mountain navigation / Ross Purves, Steve Dowers and William MacKaness

14. Tour of the Tors / Kate E. Moore and John W. Gerrard

Pt. III. Virtual cities

15. Introduction / Michael Batty, David Fairbairn and Cliff Ogleby / [et al.]

16. Data collection issues in virtual reality for urban geographical representation and modelling / David Fairbairn and George Taylor

17. Virtual world heritage cities: the ancient Thai city of Ayutthaya reconstructed / Cliff Ogleby

18. Visualizing data components of the urban scene / Kate E. Moore

19. Virtuality and cities: definitions, geographies, designs / Michael Batty and Andy Smith

Pt. IV. 'Other' worlds

20. 'Other' worlds: augmented, comprehensible, non-material spaces / Jo Cheesman, Martin Dodge and Francis Harvey / [et al.]

21. Explorations in AlphaWorld: the geography of 3D virtual worlds on the Internet / Martin Dodge

22. Visualizing data quality through interactive metadata browsing / Francis Harvey

23. There's no there there: virtual reality, space and geographic visualization / Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge

24. Virtual reality: an exploratory tool for investigating the cognitive mapping and navigational skills of visually-impaired people / Jo Cheesman and Chris Perkins

25. Multi-modal virtual reality for presenting geographic information / R. Daniel Jacobson, Rob Kitchin and Reginald Golledge.

Computer generated contents: Chapt. 1. Virtual reality in geography: an introduction

chapt. 2. Geography in VR: context

chapt. 3. Virtual archaeologies and the hyper-real: or, what does it mean to describe something as virtually-real?

chapt. 4. Web-based virtual environments

chapt. 5. Virtual reality and GIS: applications, trends and directions

chapt. 6. Visual exploration of virtual environments

chapt. 7. Creating information-rich virtual environments with geo-referenced digital panoramic imagery

chapt. 8. Introduction

chapt. 9. Visualizing sustainable agricultural landscapes

chapt. 10. The application of VR modelling in assessing potential visual impacts of rural development

chapt. 11. Multi-resolution virtual environments as a visualization front-end to GIS

chapt. 12. Visualizing the structure and scale dependency of landscapes

chapt. 13. Providing context in virtual reality: the example of a CAL package for mountain navigation

chapt. 14. A tour of the tors

chapt. 15. Introduction

chapt. 16. Data collection issues in virtual reality for urban geographical representation and modelling

chapt. 17. Virtual world heritage cities: the ancient thai city of ayutthaya reconstructed

chapt. 18. Visualizing data components of the urban scene

chapt. 19. Virtuality and cities: definitions, geographies, designs

chapt. 20. 'Other' worlds: augmented, comprehensible, non-material spaces

chapt. 21. Explorations in alphaworld: the geography of 3d virtual worlds on the internet

chapt. 22. Visualizing data quality through interactive metadata browsing

chapt. 23. 'There's no there there': virtual reality, space and geographic visualization

chapt. 24. Virtual reality: an exploratory tool for investigating the cognitive mapping and navigational skills of visually-impaired people

chapt. 25. Multi-modal virtual reality for presenting geographic information.