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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality

by Karen McMenemy, Robin Stuart Ferguson
July 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
604 pages
17h 36m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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18 2. The Human Senses and VR
2.2 Human Auditory System
Our ears form the most obvious part of our auditory system, guiding sound
waves into the auditory canal.
The canal itself enhances the sounds we hear and directs them to the
eardrum.
The eardr um converts the sound waves into mechanical vibrations.
In the middle ear, three tiny bones amplify slight sounds by a factor of
30.
The inner ear changes the mechanical vibrations into electrochemical
signals which can then be processed by the brain.
The electrochemical signals are sent to the brain via the auditory nerve.
Humans have three different types of sound cues. Interaural time differ-
ence is a measure of the difference in time between when a sound enters our
left ear and when it ...
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ISBN: 9781568814773