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CA
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Virtual People: Capturing Human Models to Populate Virtual Worlds
In this paper a new technique is introduced for automatically building recognisable moving 3D models of individual people. Realistic modelling of people is essential for advanced ...
Adrian Hilton, Daniel Beresford, Thomas Gentils, R...
IVEVA
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Intelligent Modelling of Virtual Worlds Using Domain Ontologies
Today, the development of a VR application is still a long and difficult task as new features are being developed for Virtual Reality. There is a need to have better modelling tool...
Wesley Bille, Bram Pellens, Frederic Kleinermann, ...
VW
1998
Springer
152views Virtual Reality» more  VW 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
Growing Virtual Communities in 3D Meeting Spaces
Most existing 3D virtual worlds are basedon a "meeting-space"model, conceived as an extension of textual chat systems. An attractive 3D interface is assumed to be suffici...
Frédéric Kaplan, Angus McIntyre, Chi...
APGV
2009
ACM
137views Visualization» more  APGV 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Transitional environments enhance distance perception in immersive virtual reality systems
Several experiments have provided evidence that ego-centric distances are perceived as compressed in immersive virtual environments relative to the real world. The principal facto...
Frank Steinicke, Gerd Bruder, Klaus Hinrichs, Mark...
VR
2011
IEEE
376views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Self-motion illusions in immersive virtual reality environments
Motion perception in immersive virtual reality environments significantly differs from the real world. For example, previous work has shown that users tend to underestimate trave...
Gerd Bruder, Frank Steinicke, Phil Wieland