virtual%20reality%20and%20visualisation%20Alan%20Dix%20Staffordshire%20University%20and%20aQtive%20limited%20http://www.hiraeth.com/alan/tutorials/VR/

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virtual reality and visualisationAlan
DixStaffordshire Universityand aQtive
limitedhttp//www.hiraeth.com/alan/tutorials/VR/
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overview

• Virtual Reality - what is it?
• treading the borders of cyberspace
• virtual collaborative environments
• seeing in 3D
• using 3D and visualising 3D
• VRML

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VR in education?

• exciting topic in itself (IT, sociology)
• 3D perception (biology/psychology/mathematics)
• visualising objects and data (history, anatomy,
  etc.)
• 3D coordinate geometry (maths and IT)
• medium for distance education
• remote collaborative learning

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note

• each group of slides separately numbered!
• see the web page for VR on the web
• http//www.hiraeth.com/alan/tutorials/VR/