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CIA
2001
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Improving Communication in 3D Virtual Environments by Means of Task Delegation in Agents
User-to-User Communication within Internet-based 3D Virtual Environments is usually difficult mainly due to the trade-off between the capability and the complexity of the interface...
Ricardo Imbert, Angélica de Antonio, Javier...
VR
2002
IEEE
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Perceived Egocentric Distances in Real, Image-Based, and Traditional Virtual Environments
In virtual environments, perceived egocentric distances are consistently underestimated when compared to the same distance judgments in the real world. The research presented in t...
Peter Willemsen, Amy Gooch
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Real Time Visualization of Robot State with Mobile Virtual Reality
— With the deployment of large, distributed networks of cameras and other sensors, it is becoming necessary to also address the issue of how to effectively present the large vol...
Peter Amstutz, Andrew H. Fagg
HAPTICS
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Autostereoscopic and Haptic Visualization for Space Exploration and Mission Design
We have developed a multi-modal virtual environment set-up by fusing visual and haptic images through the use of a new autostereoscopic display and a force-feedback haptic device....
Cagatay Basdogan, Mitchell J. H. Lum, Jose Salcedo...
VRST
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Information-rich virtual environments: theory, tools, and research agenda
Virtual environments (VEs) allow users to experience and interact with a rich sensory environment, but most virtual worlds contain only sensory information similar to that which w...
Doug A. Bowman, Chris North, Jian Chen, Nicholas F...
VRML
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A multi-user virtual environment system with extensible animations
Multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) systems integrate the technologies of virtual reality and distributed system to allow users to interact with each other in a realistic virtua...
Yi-Lin Liu, Tsai-Yen Li
VRML
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Viewpoint adaptation during navigation based on stimuli from the virtual environment
We consider the possibility of automatically modifying the user’s viewpoint orientation for the purpose of enhancing the navigation experience. We concentrate on outdoor virtual...
Szilárd Kiss, Anton Nijholt
SI3D
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Snap-together motion: assembling run-time animations
Many virtual environments and games must be populated with synthetic characters to create the desired experience. These characters must move with sufficient realism, so as not to...
Michael Gleicher, Hyun Joon Shin, Lucas Kovar, And...
VR
2003
IEEE
200views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2003»
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The blue-c Distributed Scene Graph
In this paper we present a distributed scene graph architecture for use in the blue-c, a novel collaborative immersive virtual environment. We extend the widely used OpenGL Perfor...
Martin Näf, Edouard Lamboray, Oliver G. Staad...
CW
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
This Year in the MOVES Institute
The MOVES Institute’s mission is research, application, and education in the grand challenges of modeling, virtual environments, and simulation. Specialties are 3D visual simula...
Michael Zyda, Donald P. Brutzman, Rudy Darken, Joh...