Non-Euclidean Billiards in VR
Jeff Weeks
Virtual reality simulations connect not only with our conscious minds, they also completely hijack our subconscious understanding of our environment, giving us a convincing illusion of playing billiards in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space, in Euclidean space, and on a hypersphere. Even experienced geometers may find some surprises there.
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