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DSRT
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Agent-Aided Collaborative Virtual Environments Over HLA/RTI
This paper introduces a Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) system over the Internet. A Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 97-based user interface is developed to permit...
Xiaojun Shen, Ramsey Hage, Nicolas D. Georganas
VR
2009
IEEE
136views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Does a Gradual Transition to the Virtual World increase Presence?
In order to increase a user’s sense of presence in an artificial environment some researchers propose a gradual transition from reality to the virtual world instead of immersin...
Frank Steinicke, Gerd Bruder, Klaus Hinrichs, Anth...
ICCV
2011
IEEE
12 years 10 months ago
Evaluation of Image Features Using a Photorealistic Virtual World
Image features are widely used in computer vision applications. They need to be robust to scene changes and image transformations. Designing and comparing feature descriptors requ...
Biliana Kaneva, Antonio Torralba, Bill Freeman
VR
2008
IEEE
128views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Showing Users the Way: Signs in Virtual Worlds
In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study designed to evaluate the impact of signs as navigation aids in virtual worlds. Test subjects were divided into three groups (...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Stacy Rilea
PCI
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Interactive Dynamics for Large Virtual Reality Applications
Abstract. Recent commercial virtual reality shows have become very demanding in terms of interactive credibility and visual realism. In an effort to push further the immersive qual...
Georgios Papaioannou