WELCOME TO THE VIRTUAL, AUGMENTED, AND MIXED REALITY GUIDE FROM THE TUC LIBRARY
This guide was developed by the TUC librarians for the TUC community as a resource for learning about virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). This guide is divided into four pages. The first page is an introduction and includes resources to familiarize oneself with VR/AR/MR. The three remaining pages focus on VR/AR/MR applications in pharmacy, medicine & healthcare, and education (both K12 and higher education).
We very much welcome and encourage your suggestions and comments on this guide and its contents. Please email us at: tuc.library@touro.edu.
Thank you for taking your time to consult any of these resources, and please know that we, in your TUC Library, are here for you.
-Jennifer Abueg, Amy Castro, Michael Massaro, Teresa Shellmon, Tamara Trujillo
We very much welcome and encourage your suggestions and comments on this guide and its contents. Please email us at: tuc.library@touro.edu.
Thank you for taking your time to consult any of these resources, and please know that we, in your TUC Library, are here for you.
-Jennifer Abueg, Amy Castro, Michael Massaro, Teresa Shellmon, Tamara Trujillo
BOOKS AT THE TUC LIBRARY
Virtual Reality by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: Myths and Realities by *THIS IS AN EBOOK.*
ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS
- Demystifying the Virtual Reality LandscapeThe differences between Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality, and how you can get ready to experience a new reality for yourself. - from Intel
- What's the Difference Between AR, VR, and MR?From the Franklin Institute
- What is Mixed Reality? (+How it Differs from Augmented Reality)From G2 Learning Hub
VIDEOS
Difference Between AR, VR, MR & XR (0:44)
by 3G4G
by 3G4G
XR - The Future of VR, AR & MR in One Extended Reality (10:56)
by Science Time
by Science Time
MIT Explains: How Does Virtual Reality Work? (4:40)
by MIT
by MIT
Tactical Augmented Reality (2:21)
by The U.S. Army
by The U.S. Army
ETHICAL AND HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES FOR VIRTUAL REALITY
- Health and Safety Implications of Virtual Reality: A Review of Empirical EvidenceSharples, S. & Patel, H. (2002). Health and safety implications of virtual reality: A review of empirical evidence. Applied Ergonomics, 33, 251-271. doi: 10.1016/S0003-6870(02)00020-0
"REQUEST THROUGH ILL" - Health and Safety Issues for VRViire, E. (1997). Health and safety issues for VR. Communications of the ACM, 40. doi: 10.1145/257874.257882
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/257874.257882?download=true
"REQUEST THROUGH ILL" - Some Practical Considerations of Ethical Issues in VR ResearchBehr, K. M., Nosper, A., Klimmt, C., & Hartmann, T. (2005). Some practical considerations of ethical issues in VR research. Presence Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, 14, 668-676. doi: 10.1162/1054746057751196535
ORGANIZATIONS
- Virtual World SocietyWhat is the Virtual World Society?
The Virtual World Society is an international non-profit founded in 2015 and based in Seattle, with a mission to lift humanity by unlocking intelligence and linking minds to address the pervasive problems of our world.
-From the Virtual World Society website page "Our Story"
PODCASTS
- Everything VR & ARPodcast from The VRAR Association.
"Everything VR & AR is a weekly podcast covering technologists, enthusiasts, and companies with real world deployments of virtual reality and augmented reality experiences. Learn from interviews with the leaders in gaming, entertainment, productivity, enterprise, social, education, medicine, software, hardware, psychology and more. This podcast covers everything that is VR and AR including the hottest topics and news in virtual reality and augmented reality. Nathan Pettyjohn, Founder of the VR/AR Association is your host." - From the Everything VR & AR Apple Podcast page description. - Voices of VR Podcast" Since May 2014, Kent Bye has conducted over 1200 Voices of VR podcast interviews featuring the pioneering artists, storytellers, and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual & augmented reality"
-From the "About" page of "Voices of VR Podcast" website.
UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VR/AR/MR
Tokareva, J. (2018, February 2). The Difference Between Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality And Mixed Reality. Forbes. Retrieved February 12, 2021, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/02/02/the-difference-between-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-and-mixed-reality/?sh=3f61b6582d07
VR PIONEERS & KEY PROJECTS
TOM FURNESS
“Dr. Tom Furness is a pioneer in human interface technology and grandfather of virtual reality. Tom is currently a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering with adjunct professorships in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. He is the founder of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab) at UW and founder and international director of the HIT Lab NZ at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and the HIT Lab Australia at the University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania. He is also an Erskine Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania. He is the founder of the Virtual World Society dedicated to bringing together heart and mind through virtual reality to solve pervasive problems in the world.”
-Taken from the Biography on Dr. Furness's University of Washington's Faculty Finder.
- 50 years of VR with Tom Furness: The Super Cockpit, Virtual Retinal Display, HIT Lab, & Virtual World SocietyEpisode #245 from the "Voices of VR Podcast".
MORTON HEILIG
- Morton Heilig (1926-1997) Filmmaker and "Father of Virtual Reality"This link goes to a collection of materials about Morton Heilig, which includes the following sections: Biography, Filmmaker, Inventor – VR, Philosopher/Visionary, Photos, and Supercruiser.
IVAN SUHTERLAND
- Computer Pioneers by J. A. N. Lee: Ivan Edward SutherlandFrom Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- A Talk with Computer Graphics Pioneer Ivan Sutherland:Fifty years ago, Sutherland's Sketchpad program broke new ground in computer graphics and user interfaces.
From Time magazine
KEY PROJECTS
- artoolkitXartoolkitX is a new open source project that has been created to continue support for the ARToolKit community and to ensure that future generations of augmented reality developers will have access to, and understanding of, the underlying algorithms that drive this innovative technology. The project is run by the core team that has been responsible for all ARToolKit development for the last decade and is funded by Realmax (www.realmax.com), a leading Chinese AR company. - taken from the artoolkitX website "About Us" page.
- Magic Book Project (University of Washington)Mark Billinghurst, Hirokazu Kato, Ivan Poupyrev,
The MagicBook: a transitional AR interface,
Computers & Graphics,Volume 25, Issue 5,
2001, Pages 745-753,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0097-8493(01)00117-0. - Readers Become Part of the Action Through High-tech Mixture of Traditional Storytelling and Virtual Reality in UW’s ‘Magic Book’From UW News (University of Washington)
JOURNALS
- Frontiers in Virtual RealityFrontiers in Virtual Reality is a high visibility journal publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the entire breadth of Extended Reality. This interdisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers across academia and industry, and the public worldwide. -description taken from journal's homepage
*THIS IS AN OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL* - Virtual RealityCoverage from 09/01/2002 to 1 year ago.
Includes original research on VR/AR/MR in medicine, education, business, design, entertainment, and more, as well as social, ethical, data or legal aspects of the field, and the latest developments.