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Using Virtual Reality Concepts
The idea behind virtual reality is to give you the experience of being in an environment, interacting with it, and moving through it, without actually going there. In the ’90s, Apple Computer developed QuickTime VR (QTVR) as an extension to QuickTime, to enable users to create and experience virtual reality content through just a mouse and keyboard. Although others have developed similar technologies to Apple’s, we will refer to QTVR as being representative of the general concepts we will be discussing here.
The basic idea behind QTVR is the following. Suppose you are standing in someplace of interest, perhaps someplace you’ve always wanted to visit. You can look all around you, left and right, up and down, any ...
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