虚拟现实的宽阔前景

虚拟现实技术是信息科学当前研究热点之一.本文在阐述虚拟现实技术的同时,探讨了虚拟现实技术和GIS技术结合的方式和途径,并将这两者的结合划分为三个阶段.并简述了虚拟现实技术对于“数字地球”和“地学信息图谱”发展的重要作用及其在地学中的应用.

A Bright Future of Virtual Reality

Currently, virtual reality technology has become one of the focus points for researches in the information science. In this paper, the virtual reality technology is expatiated. Based on this expatiation, the ways and approaches by which the virtual reality and geographic information system technology use together to resolve problems are discussed. Moreover, the integration of the virtual reality and geographic information system is partitioned into three phases. The superiority of the virtual reality as the means by which man interchanges with information space. This paper points out particularly that the virtual reality will play important roles in the development of the "Digital Earth" and the information "tupu" . Finally, some domains of the Geo-science in which the virtual reality technology can play important roles are set forth.