chapter 1 Virtual reality in geography -- An introduction / part Part I Introduction to VR and technology -- chapter 2 Geography in VR -- Context / chapter 3 Virtual archaeologies and the hyper-real -- Or, what does it mean to describe something as virtually-real? / chapter 4 Web-based virtual environments / chapter 5 Virtual reality and GIS -- Applications, trends and directions / chapter 6 Visual exploration of virtual environments / chapter 7 Creating information-rich virtual environments with geo-referenced digital panoramic imagery / part Part II Virtual landscapes -- chapter 8 Introduction / chapter 9 Visualizing sustainable agricultural landscapes / chapter 10 The application of VR modelling in assessing potential visual impacts of rural development / chapter 11 Multi-resolution virtual environments as a visualization front-end to GIS / chapter 12 Visualizing the structure and scale dependency of landscapes / chapter 13 Providing context in virtual reality -- The example of a CAL package for mountain navigation / chapter 14 A Tour of the Tors / part Part III Virtual cities -- chapter 15 Introduction / chapter 16 Data collection issues in virtual reality for urban geographical representation and modelling / chapter 17 Virtual world heritage cities -- The ancient Thai city of Ayutthaya reconstructed / chapter 18 Visualizing data components of the urban scene / chapter 19 Virtuality and cities -- De?nitions, geographies, designs / part Part IV Other worlds -- chapter 20 Other worlds -- Augmented, comprehensible, non-material spaces / chapter 21 Explorations in AlphaWorld -- The geography of 3D virtual worlds on the Internet / chapter 22 Visualizing data quality through interactive metadata browsing / chapter 23 There's no there there -- Virtual reality, space and geographic visualization / chapter 24 Virtual reality -- An exploratory tool for investigating the cognitive mapping and navigational skills of visually-impaired people / chapter 25 Multi-modal virtual reality for presenting geographic information