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VRST
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Presence in response to dynamic visual realism: a preliminary report of an experiment study
This paper describes an experiment that examines the influence of visual realism on reported presence. 33 participants experienced two different renderings of a virtual environmen...
Pankaj Khanna, Insu Yu, Jesper Mortensen, Mel Slat...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Motion-capture-based avatar control framework in third-person view virtual environments
This paper presents a motion-capture-based control framework for third-person view virtual reality applications. Using motion capture devices, a user can directly control the full...
Masaki Oshita
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Creating High-quality Roadmaps for Motion Planning in Virtual Environments
— Our goal is to create roadmaps that are particularly suited for motion planning in virtual environments. We use our Reachability Roadmap Method to compute an initial, resolutio...
Roland Geraerts, Mark H. Overmars
ICPPW
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Scalable Synchronization Technique for Distributed Virtual Environments Based on Networked-Server Architectures
In recent years, large scale distributed virtual environments have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multiplayer online ga...
Pedro Morillo, Juan M. Orduña, José ...
HPDC
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Motor: A Virtual Machine for High Performance Computing
High performance application development remains challenging, particularly for scientists making the transition to a Grid environment. In general areas of computing, virtual envir...
Wojtek Goscinski, David Abramson
CCGRID
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Nova: An Approach to On-Demand Virtual Execution Environments for Grids
This paper attempts to reduce the overheads of dynamically creating and destroying the virtual environments for secure job execution. It broaches a grid architecture which we call...
Srikanth Sundarrajan, Hariprasad Nellitheertha, Su...
ANSS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Moderating Simulation Lag in Haptic Virtual Environments
Simulation lag is a known issue in networked virtual environments where users are geographically distributed. When users collaborate across the network using haptics, there are al...
Azzedine Boukerche, Shervin Shirmohammadi, Abuhoss...
EDUTAINMENT
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Visualization Learning for Visually Impaired People
Virtual Environments (VE) are mainly visual experiments that exclude visually impaired people. In this paper we present an application that should allow almost everybody to “seeâ...
Patrick Salamin, Daniel Thalmann, Fréd&eacu...
VR
2007
IEEE
179views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
On the Characterization of Peer-To-Peer Distributed Virtual Environments
Large scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multi-player online games in th...
Silvia Rueda, Pedro Morillo, Juan M. Orduña...
IV
2007
IEEE
98views Visualization» more  IV 2007»
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An infrastructure for remote virtual exploration on PDAs
In this paper we present a prototyped system to enable the virtual exploration of a complex virtual environment. Our approach exploits Quest3D as main rendering engine, its output...
Rosario De Chiara, Ugo Erra, Andrea Petta, Vittori...