Virtual Geographic Environment - A Geographical Perspective on Online Virtual Reality (Contemporary Science Frontiers Series)

Author: Gong Jianhua Lin Hui
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Publish Date: 2001-05-15
Features: This book systematically introduces the characteristics and significance of the network information space and online virtual reality based on the Internet from the perspectives of geography and philosophy. The book consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 defines the concept of the virtual world and explores its essence and value from philosophical, aesthetic, and other perspectives; Chapter 2 discusses the concept, structural characteristics, and evolutionary process of virtual geographic environments, as well as the concept, research objects, and research content of virtual geography; Chapter 3 examines the system framework design of distributed geographic virtual environments and develops a system prototype; Chapter 4 establishes the structure of computer geographic diagram models and the framework structure of the virtual diagram system for geographic knowledge visualization and exploration; Chapter 5 elaborates on the interrelationship between the virtual world/virtual geographic environment and human sustainable development. This book can serve as a teaching material for graduate students and is also reference material for researchers and social workers in the fields of geography, earth information science, computer science, information science, social sciences, economic sciences, and other disciplines.