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CANDT
2009
14 years 1 months ago
And the ringleaders were banned: an examination of protest in virtual worlds
Protest has made the jump between the offline and the online spaces and is frequently used in most virtual worlds available today. Despite the frequency of these protest actions i...
Bridget Marie Blodgett
CAINE
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Scrybe: A Tablet Interface for Virtual Environments
Virtual reality (VR) technology has the potential to provide unique perspectives of data that are not possible with standard desktop hardware. The tracking devices often found wit...
Roger V. Hoang, Joshua Hegie, Frederick C. Harris ...
VRML
2000
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Using VRML in construction industry applications
This paper describes initial research using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML97) in construction industry applications. The modeling of steel structures and construction...
Robert Lipman, Kent Reed
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Preliminary Experiment Combining Virtual Reality Haptic Shoes and Audio Synthesis
We describe a system that can provide combined auditory and haptic sensations that arise while walking on different grounds. The simulation is based on a physical model that drive...
Rolf Nordahl, Amir Berrezag, Smilen Dimitrov, Luca...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Social gravity: a virtual elastic tether for casual, privacy-preserving pedestrian rendezvous
We describe a virtual “tether” for mobile devices that allows groups to have quick, simple and privacy-preserving meetups. Our design provides cues which allow dynamic coordin...
John Williamson, Simon Robinson, Craig Stewart, Ro...