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VRML
2003
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Guiding visitors of Web3D worlds through automatically generated tours
Many Web3D sites do not offer sufficient assistance to (especially novice) users in navigating the virtual world, find objects/places of interests, and learn how to interact with ...
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon, Lucio Ieronutti
VR
2009
IEEE
319views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Virtual Heliodon: Spatially Augmented Reality for Architectural Daylighting Design
We present an application of interactive global illumination and spatially augmented reality to architectural daylight modeling that allows designers to explore alternative design...
Yu Sheng, Theodore C. Yapo, Christopher Young, Bar...
JIRS
2008
110views more  JIRS 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
A Multi-Modal Haptic Interface for Virtual Reality and Robotics
In this paper we present an innovative haptic device that combines the electro-tactile stimulation with the force and visual feedbacks in order to improve the perception of a virtu...
Michele Folgheraiter, Giuseppina C. Gini, Dario L....
HAPTICS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Passive set-position modulation approach for haptics with slow, variable, and asynchronous update
We consider the following problem in haptics: information update from the virtual world is slow w.r.t. the local servo-loop rate of the haptic device, and the information transmis...
Dongjun Lee, Ke Huang
ICDE
1998
IEEE
180views Database» more  ICDE 1998»
14 years 11 months ago
The Alps at Your Fingertips: Virtual Reality and Geoinformation Systems
We advocate a desktop virtual reality (VR) interface to a geographic information system (GIS). The navigational capability to explore large topographic scenes is a powerful metaph...
Renato Pajarola, Thomas Ohler, Peter Stucki, Korne...