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Teaching astronomy and celestial mechanics through virtual reality
Author(s) -
Guimarães Marcelo de Paiva,
Gnecco Bruno Barberi
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
computer applications in engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.478
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1099-0542
pISSN - 1061-3773
DOI - 10.1002/cae.20174
Subject(s) - virtual reality , computer science , state (computer science) , human–computer interaction , astronomy , multimedia , physics , algorithm
We discuss in this article issues involved in using state interactive and immersive virtual reality (VR) environments to the teaching of Astronomy, and how it improves student understanding. We also show that VR systems can nowadays be deployed with low‐cost, off‐the‐shelf components, and that they do not require the huge amount of expertise to be setup as they did only a few years ago, allowing all institutions to acquire them. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 17: 196–205, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com); DOI 10.1002/cae20174