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Built Environment
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Virtual Reality and
the Built
Environment
Jennifer Whyte
Architectural Press
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Whyte, Jennifer
Virtual reality and the built environment
1. Virtual reality in architecture
I. Title
'856
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ISBN 0 7506 5372 8
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Contents
Foreword by Professor David Gann vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Picture credits xii
1 Using virtual reality 1
What is virtual reality? 2
Historical context 7
Focus on applications 18
2 Maps, models and virt