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Virtual Reality Resources: Books and Journals

Books and Journals

Introduction to Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality (available online) by Samuel Greengard
ISBN: 9780262537520
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
A comprehensive overview of developments in augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality-and how they could affect every part of our lives.
Defying Reality by David M. Ewalt
ISBN: 9781101983713
Publication Date: 2018-07-17
This book chronicles VR's origins in Cold War military laboratories, and traces it through decades of hype and failed products, to a teenage gamer whose advancements made the recent breakthroughs in VR possible.
Experience on Demand by Jeremy Bailenson
ISBN: 9780393253696
Publication Date: 2018-01-30
This book offers expert guidelines for interacting with VR and describes the profound ways this technology can be used to hone our performance, help us recover from trauma, improve our learning and communication abilities.
Auralization (available online) by Michael Vorländer
ISBN: 3030512010
Publication Date: 2020-08-29
This book is organized as a comprehensive collection of the basics of sound and vibration, acoustic modelling, simulation, signal processing and audio reproduction.
Cases on Immersive Virtual Reality Techniques (Available online) by Benjamin Kenwright; Kenneth C. C. Yang (Editor)
ISBN: 1522559124
Publication Date: 2019-04-12
Cases on Immersive Virtual Reality Techniques is an essential reference source that discusses new applications of virtual reality.
Creating VR Experiences with VRTK 4 (Available online) by Rakesh Baruah
ISBN: 1484254872
Publication Date: 2019-12-07
This book shows you how to create original virtual reality content using the Unity game engine and the Virtual Reality Tool Kit.

Journals and Conference Proceedings

Discipline-specific Resources for Virtual Reality

Digital Anatomy (Available online) by Jean-François UHL (Editor); Joaquim Jorge (Editor); Daniel Simões Lopes (Editor); Pedro F. Campos (Editor)
ISBN: 9783030619046
Publication Date: 2021-05-15
This book offers readers fresh insights on applying Extended Reality to Digital Anatomy, a novel emerging discipline.
Storytelling for Virtual Reality (available online) by John Bucher
ISBN: 9781138629653
Publication Date: 2017-07-20
Storytelling for Virtual Reality serves as a bridge between students of new media and professionals working between the emerging world of VR technology and the art form of classical storytelling.
Virtual Reality Cinema (Available online) by Eric R. Williams; Carrie Love; Matt Love
ISBN: 1003028284
Publication Date: 2021-02-17
This book is an absolute must-read for any student of filmmaking, media production, transmedia storytelling and game design who wants to understand the new challenges and opportunities of virtual reality cinema.
Virtual Reality and the Criminal Justice System by Bobbie Ticknor
ISBN: 9781498534277
Publication Date: 2018-02-19
This book discusses how the technology can be used for correctional rehabilitation. Specifically, the book explores how cognitive behaviour therapy, a widely used therapeutic technique used to treat offenders, can be improved using VR.
Virtual Reality for Psychological and Neurocognitive Interventions (available online) by Albert Skip Rizzo (Editor); Stéphane Bouchard (Editor)
ISBN: 1493994808
Publication Date: 2019-08-24
This exciting collection tours virtual reality in both its current therapeutic forms and its potential to transform a wide range of medical and mental health-related fields.
Virtual Reality in Curriculum and Pedagogy (available online) by Erica Southgate
ISBN: 0429291981
Publication Date: 2020-04-23
The book's original pedagogical framework is informed by qualitative and quantitative data collected from the first-ever study to embed immersive VR in secondary school science, ICT, and drama classrooms.
Journalism in the Age of Virtual Reality by John Pavlik
ISBN: 9780231184496
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
In this book, John V. Pavlik argues that a new form of mediated communication has emerged: experiential news.
Emerging Technologies for Health and Medicine (Available online) by Dac-Nhuong Le (Editor); Chung Van Le (Editor); Jolanda G. Tromp (Editor); Gia Nhu Nguyen (Editor)
ISBN: 1119509858
Publication Date: 2018-11-12
Showcases the latest trends in new virtual/augmented reality healthcare and medical applications and provides an overview of the economic, psychological, educational and organizational impacts of these new applications.