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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
VR
2002
IEEE
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Handling Heterogeneity in Networked Virtual Environments
The availability of inexpensive and powerful graphics cards as well as fast Internet connections make Networked Virtual Environments viable for millions of users and many new appl...
Helmuth Trefftz, Ivan Marsic, Michael Zyda
VR
2002
IEEE
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Efficient Manipulation of Object Groups in Virtual Environments
In this paper, we describe simple techniques for object group manipulation, an important operation in user interaction with a Virtual Environment. All presented manipulation techn...
Wolfgang Stürzlinger, Graham Smith
VR
2002
IEEE
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Distributed Applications for Collaborative Augmented Reality
This paper focuses on the distributed architecture of the collaborative augmented reality system Studierstube. The system allows multiple users to experience a shared 3D workspace...
Dieter Schmalstieg, Gerd Hesina
VR
2002
IEEE
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A Scalable, Multi-User VRML Server
VRML97 allows the description of dynamic worlds that can change with both the passage of time, and user interaction. Unfortunately, the current VRML usage model prevents its full ...
Thomas Rischbeck, Paul Watson
VR
2002
IEEE
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An Extensible Event-Based Infrastructure for Networked Virtual Worlds
Many VR platforms emphasize extensibility to support as wide a range of applications as possible. The current trend is to move this extensibility to lower levels of the system to ...
Jim Purbrick, Chris Greenhalgh
VR
2002
IEEE
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Tinmith-Hand: Unified User Interface Technology for Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality and Indoor Virtual Reality
This paper presents a unified user interface technology, using 3D interaction techniques, constructive solid geometry, and a glove based menuing system, known as TinmithHand, to s...
Wayne Piekarski, Bruce H. Thomas
VR
2002
IEEE
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VizWear-3D: A Wearable 3-D Annotation System Based on 3-D Object Tracking Using a Condensation Algorithm
We have developed a method for recognizing and tracking known three-dimensional objects in scene images captured from a user’s viewpoint. The method uses multiple color histogra...
Takashi Okuma, Takeshi Kurata, Katsuhiko Sakaue
VR
2002
IEEE
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Estimating and Adapting to Registration Errors in Augmented Reality Systems
All augmented reality (AR) systems must deal with registration errors. While most AR systems attempt to minimize registration errors through careful calibration, registration erro...
Blair MacIntyre, Enylton Machado Coelho, Simon Jul...
VR
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Interacting with Visible Human Data Using an ImmersaDesk
Interaction with medical volume data has often been difficult due to the large memory and computational power required. By taking advantage of current high-end graphics hardware, ...
Ching-Yao Lin, David T. Chen, R. Bowen Loftin, Jia...