By Kelly Milner Halls
Describes the necessities, schooling, and tasks linked to turning into a digital fact professional contains profiles of fashionable pioneers within the
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Some virtual reality specialists are working on technology that allows a user’s brain to interact directly with a computer. Some famouS Virtual reality SpecialiStS Douglas Engelbart (1925–) is an American inventor and the forefather of human–computer interaction. He is best known for creating the computer mouse. Problem solving was his primary inspiration. Morton Heilig (1926–1997) was a filmmaker who created the multimedia experience known as the Sensorama, a device that simulated experiences through sight, sound, touch, and smell.
Virtual Reality. Detroit: Lucent, 2005. com/ Pictures of the VirtuSphere and more information about its uses 21st Century skills library Cool sCienCe Careers Virtual reality SpecialiSt index artificiality, 12 character traits, 18, 20 computer mice, 5, 29 education, 12, 13, 16, 19, 20, 22 Engelbart, Douglas, 5, 29 Fakespace system, 19 flight simulators, 9 full body immersion, 15 goggles, 5, 13–14, 25 head mounted displays (HMDs), 13–14 Heilig, Morton, 8, 29 Heim, Michael, 11 imagination, 14, 19, 22, 28 immersion, 12, 13–14, 15, 19 interaction, 5, 13, 28, 29 internships, 22 Krueger, Myron, 29 language training, 12 Lanier, Jaron, 29 light pens, 6 mathematics, 10, 11, 22 mental health, 27 movies, 9 network communications, 16 Palladin, Alexey, 26 Realtown, 12 Rheingold, Howard, 29 salaries, 20 Sensorama, 8, 29 simulations, 5, 11, 12, 20, 27 Sketchpad program, 6, 29 Stanford Research Institute, 5 Sutherland, Ivan, 6, 29 Telepresence, 14–15 training, 12, 14, 16, 19, 20, 27 video games, 9, 11, 20–21, 22, 25, 26 View-Master stereoscope, 6 Virtual Iraq, 27 VirtuSphere, 25–27 Wii game system, 25 about the author Kelly Milner Halls is the author of 25 books, including innovative nonfiction about dinosaurs, mummies, albino animals, horses, dogs, zoos, and cryptozoology.
Myron Krueger (1942–) is an educator and computer artist. He created a virtual reality system called VIDEOPLACE, in which environments are projected on walls instead of through goggles. His vision was to make art interactive. Jaron Lanier (1960–) was one of the first computer scientists to use the phrase virtual reality in the early 1980s. He founded VPL Research, the first company to sell virtual reality products. He is currently a scholar-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley.