虚拟现实技术—回顾与展望

Virtual Reality Review and Expectation

虚拟现实技术是一种有效地模拟人在自然环境中视、听、动等行为的高级人机交互技术。它是人工智能、计算机图形学、人机接口技术、多媒体技术、网络技术、并行计算技术等多种技术的集成。目前已在科学可视化、飞行模拟、医学、遥感与遥控、ＣＡＤ／ＣＡＭ、教育、娱乐等领域获得广泛的应用。而且随着虚拟现实技术的不断发展，必将展示出更加广阔的应用前景。因而，介绍虚拟现实技术的研究与发展状况，让更多的人了解虚拟现实技术，对推动虚拟现实技术在我国的研究和应用具有极为重要的意义。

Virtual Reality is an advanced man-machine interaction technique that simulates human behavior of vision, audition and action effectively.It's an integration of artificial intelligence,computer graphics, man - machine inte4rface, multimedia, network, parallel computing, etc.It's applied to science visualization,flight simulation, medicine, remote sensing and remote control, CAD/CAM, education, entertainment, etc. It must display much more wide application foreground along with progresses of Virtual Reality.Thus,it is extremely important to introduce research and development of Virtual Reality and make more people know it for promoting research and application of it in china.