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2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
How real should virtual characters be?
In recent years 3D virtual characters have become more common in desktop interfaces, particularly in gaming and entertainment applications. In this paper we describe how augmented...
Daniel Wagner, Mark Billinghurst, Dieter Schmalsti...
VR
2010
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
Interaction capture in immersive virtual environments via an intelligent floor surface
We present techniques to enable users to interact on foot with simulated natural ground surfaces in immersive virtual environments. Position and force estimates from in-floor for...
Yon Visell, Alvin Law, Jessica Ip, Severin Smith, ...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
PhidgetLab: crossing the border from virtual to real-world objects
Teaching pupils the ideas behind objects in programming languages can be difficult since these concepts are mostly and not comprehensible at first sight. Etoys as a visual progra...
Michael Haupt, Michael Perscheid, Robert Hirschfel...
CHI
1995
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
User Embodiment in Collaborative Virtual Environments
This paper explores the issue of user embodiment within collaborative virtual environments. By user embodiment we mean the provision of users with appropriate body images so as to...
Steve Benford, John Bowers, Lennart E. Fahlé...
AUIC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Virtual planning rooms (ViPR): a 3D visualisation environment for hierarchical information
The Future Operations Centre Analysis Laboratory (FOCAL) at Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) is aimed at exploring new paradigms for situation awar...
Michael Broughton