Basics of Virtual Reality From the Discovery of Perspective to VR Glasses.

Preface
	Literature
Contents
1: Introduction
	1.1 Creation of Illusions
		The Technique of the Images
			Overview
	1.2 Light and Shadow
		Light as the Basis of Imaging
	1.3 Holograph and Holoscopy
		Possible and Impossible Word Formations in 3D
			Overview
		3D Prefixes
		3D Suffixes
	1.4 What the Hell?
		Autostereoscopy, Holography or Virtual Reality?
		Stereoscopy
		Autostereoscopy
		Light Field
		Holography
		Virtual Reality
	Literature
2: Discovery of Perspective
	2.1 Sense of Light
		About the Development and Structure of the Eyes
			The Cambrian Explosion
			Background Information
			Schizochroal or Holochroal?
			Kepler´s Conjecture
			Apposition or Superposition
			From the Dissection of an Eye
	2.2 Paleo VR
		From Virtual Reality in the Stone Age
	2.3 Historical Theories of Vision
		From the Real Object to Its Perception
			From the Apeiron Via the Ether to the Quantum Field
			Tetractys-the Divine Fourfoldness
			Is Seeing Nothing But Hot Air?
			Background Information
			The Apology of SOCRATES
			Euclidean Space
			Stoics
	2.4 Ancient Perspectives
		The Use of Perspective in Antiquity
			Background Information
			The Burning Mirrors of Archimedes
			The Competition of the Painters
	2.5 Projections from the Middle Ages
		The Renaissance of Perspective
			The Legend of Giotto´s Childhood
			Background Information
	2.6 Multiple Perspectives
		A Picture from Different Angles
	Literature
3: Images from Light
	3.1 Camera Obscura
		Pictures from the Darkroom
			The Epicyclic Hypothesis-Epicycle and Deferent
	3.2 Magic Lantern
		Magic Lantern and Fright Lamp
			Background Information
			Background Information
			The Molyneux Problem
	3.3 Solar Microscope
		Projection with Solar Power
	3.4 Moving Images
		Wonder Wheel and High-Speed Viewer
			Projection Magic
			Background Information
			Kaleidoscope and Kaleidophone
			Let There Be Light!
			Background Information
	3.5 Television
		Seeing with Electricity
			Background Information
	3.6 Liquid Crystals
		Carrots for the Eyes
			Tensors for the ``Operation´´ of Liquid Crystals
	3.7 Luminous Crystals
		The Glow of the Carborundum
	3.8 Radiant Plasma
		Light from Charged Gas
			Plasma
	Literature
4: Virtual Illusions: The Generation of Spatial Images
	4.1 Natural Spatial Vision
		The True Perception
	4.2 Binocular Spatial Perception
		Seeing with Two Eyes
	4.3 Spatial Disturbance
		Perception Problems with 3D Glasses
	4.4 Stereoscopes
		A Peep-Box for Two Eyes
	4.5 3D Glasses
		Image Separation to Put on
	4.6 Naked Eye
		Stereoscopy Without 3D Glasses
			Background Information
	4.7 Autostereoscopy
		About Barriers and Lenses
			Barrier or Lens?
			Moiré Effect
	4.8 Light Field
		The Light Field in the Illumination Space
			Physical Fields
	Literature
5: Virtual Spaces
	5.1 Panoramas
		Right in the Middle Instead of Just There
		La Nature a Coup d´Œil: Nature at a Glance
		The Teaching Swing of the Aviators
	5.2 Duplicated Reality
		Copied Worlds for All Senses
		The Sixth Sense
			Olfactory Cinema
	5.3 Interaction
		Perspectives of the Artificial Space
			Nintendo´s Power Glove
			Optical Gratings
	5.4 Real Virtuality
		From the Virtual into Reality
			The Self-Replicating Interstellar Spaceship ``Oumuamua´´
			From Depth-Maps, Time-of-Flight and Structured Light
			Holograms
			Points of Light in the Space
	Literature
6: Concluding Remarks
	Literature
Register of Persons
Index