The main goal of virtual reality based surgery simulators with haptic feedback is to provide an alternative to traditional training methods on animals, cadavers or real patients. ...
With the ever increasing availability of the Internet and electronic media rich in graphical and pictorial information – for communication, commerce, entertainment, art, educati...
Pubudu Madhawa Silva, Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Josh...
Recent findings have shown that humans can adapt their internal control model to account for the changing dynamics of systems they manipulate. In this paper, we explore the effect...
Ali Israr, Hakan Kapson, Volkan Patoglu, Marcia Ki...
Networked virtual environments like Second Life enable distant people to meet for leisure as well as work. But users are represented through avatars controlled by keyboards and mo...
Benjamin Petit, Thomas Dupeux, Benoit Bossavit, Jo...
In augmented virtuality which virtualizes real objects to construct a mixed reality environment, it is important to estimate object surface reflectance properties to render object...