Part 1 - Media: Sound, Image and Text

Chapter 1- Introduction to Multimedia and Virtual Reality 
1.1 Multimedia and Virtual Reality 
1.2 Disciplines - the interdisciplinary nature of MM and VR development
1.3 The senses


Chapter 2 - Sound
2.1 The physics of sound
2.2 The physiology of hearing
2.3 The psychology of hearing
2.4 Spatial hearing
2.5 Recording technology 
2.5.1 Microphones
2.5.2 Microphone pre-amps 
2.5.3 Mix amplifiers 
2.5.4 Equalisers/tone-controls
2.5.5 Power amplifier
2.5.6 Loudspeakers


Chapter 3 - Waveform Generation and Synthesis
3.1 Function Generation
3.2 Additive synthesis
3.3 FM synthesis
3.4 Sampling
3.5 Wave-table synthesis
3.6 MIDI
3.7 Speech synthesis


Chapter 4 - Image 
4.1 The physics of light
4.2 The physiology of the eye
4.3 Psychology of vision
4.3.1 Colour 
4.3.2 Movement 
4.3.3 Depth 
4.4 Film and television
4.4.1 Television signal
4.4.2 Colour television
4.5 Switching and combining of video signals
4.6 Computer video standards
4.7 Bitmap and Vector graphics
4.7.1 Graphics file formats


Chapter 5 - Text, Hypertext
5.1 Text in the electronic world 
5.2 the ASCII standard 
5.3 Word processors their uses, file formats, importability/exportability
5.4 Fonts, Typefaces and layout
5.5 Hypertext


Chapter 6 - Digital Audio and Digital Video 
6.1 Being Digital 
6.2 A to D and D to A conversion
6.3 Description of digital audio and digital video standard interfaces
6.4 Digital image processing
6.5 Data compression techniques
6.5.1 Image data compression
6.5.2 Audio data compression


Chapter 7 - Computers 
7.1 Hardware platforms 
7.2 Capture and acquisition hardware
7.3 Peripheral hardware and software tools

Part 2 - Media Production and Hardware

Chapter 8 - Audio production  
8.1 Production tools and concepts 
8.1.1 Multitrack recording and mixers
8.1.2 Delay 
8.1.3 Reverb
8.1.4 Stereo panning
8.1.5 Distortion
8.1.6 Noise-gates
8.1.7 Exciters
8.2 Digital audio production
8.2.1 Hard-disk editing 
8.2.2 MIDI sequencing
8.2.3 Practical look at sampling rates and audio compromises required for CD-ROM
8.4 A typical mixed-media audio production


Chapter 9 - Video production 
9.1 Stage 1 - Pre-Production Planning
9.1.1 Scripting
9.1.2 Storyboarding
9.1.3 Writing the Production Schedule
9.2 Stage 2 - Production Shoot
9.2.1 Camera
9.2.2 Lighting
9.2.3 Sound
9.3 Stage 3 - Video Post Production 
9.3.1 What is a video transition?
9.3.2 The Cut	
9.3.3 The Dissolve
9.3.4 The Fade
9.3.5 Wipes and reverse wipes
9.3.6 Keys
9.3.7 Preview
9.4 Working with a computer
9.4.1 Keying-in computer graphics
9.4.2 Computer as editor
9.5 Advanced video production techniques
9.5.1 Introduction
9.5.2 Monochrome
9.5.3 Split-screens
9.5.4 Posterize
9.5.5 Chroma-key	
9.6 Notes on audio in video post-production	


Chapter 10 - Computer Graphics and Animation 
10.1 Role of computer
10.1.1 Types of animation
10.1.2 Software
10.2 2D 
10.2.1 Paint functions
10.2.2 compositing 
10.2.3 video effects
10.2.4 rotorscoping
10.3 3D graphics and animation


Chapter 11 - Multimedia Authoring
11.1 Interactive multimedia authoring
11.2 Windows and OLE 
11.2.1 WAV file
11.2.2 BMP files
11.2.3 MID files
11.2.4  AVI files
11.3 Macromedia Authorware Professional as an authoring environment 
11.3.1 Incorporating files
11.3.2 Design of buttons/ hot-spots
11.3.3 Animation
11.3.4 Packaging - generation of EXE files
11.4 Graphical browsers
11.5 HTML files and the Internet

Part 3 - Virtual Reality

Chapter 12 - Realistic Auditory Stimulation 
12.0 Spatial hearing revisited
12.1 Binaural techniques
12.1.1 Binaural microphone technique
12.1.2 Synthetic binaural soundfields, HRTF's
12.1.3 Limitations of binaural technique
12.2 Creation of sound-fields using loudspeakers
12.2.1 Binaural cancellation techniques and their limitations 
12.2.2 Blumlein's technique for stereophony - the TIHM microphone technique
12.2.3 FRANCINSTIEN stereophonic image enhancement technique
12.3 Creation of synthetic, realistic sound-fields using loudspeakers
12.3.1 Dolby surround
12.3.2 Ambisonics
12.4 Commercial 3D from 2 loudspeakers
12.4.1 Roland RSS system and Thorn EMI Sensaura 
12.4.2 OM 3D sound processor


Chapter 13 - Realistic Visual Stimulation 
13.1 Stereoscopy 
13.1.1 Colour analglyph
13.1.2 Polarised
13.1.3 Field sequential
13.1.4 Head Mounted Display
13.1.5 Autostereoscopic systems
13.2 Depth enhancement techniques


Chapter 14 - Cyberspace 
14.0 What is virtual reality? 
14.1 The other senses 
14.2 Physical interaction 
14.3 Practical virtual reality systems
14.4 "Cyberatmosphere" 


Appendix 1
The Fourier Transform


Appendix 2
Top-down model of Auditory Localisation system