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VW
1998
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Grounding Virtual Worlds in Reality
We suggest in this article a new paradigm for the representation of data, which is best suited for the real-time visualization and sonorisation of complex systems, real or simulat...
Guillaume Hutzler, Bernard Gortais, Alexis Drogoul
WMTE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Environmental Detectives: PDAs as a Window into a Virtual Simulated World
The use of computer simulations is changing the nature of scientific investigation and providing us unique insights into the way that the world works. As simulation moves from the...
Eric Klopfer, Kurt Squire, Henry Jenkins
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Orchestrating a mixed reality game 'on the ground'
Successfully staging a mixed reality game in which online players are chased through a virtual city by runners located in the real world requires extensive orchestration work. An ...
Andy Crabtree, Steve Benford, Tom Rodden, Chris Gr...
VR
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Can you stand on virtual grounds? A study on postural affordances in virtual reality
The concept of affordance, introduced by the psychologist James Gibson, can be defined as the functional utility of an object, a surface or an event. The purpose of this article ...
Tony Regia-Corte, Maud Marchal, Anatole Léc...
TVCG
2012
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11 years 7 months ago
Tuning Self-Motion Perception in Virtual Reality with Visual Illusions
—Motion perception in immersive virtual environments significantly differs from the real world. For example, previous work has shown that users tend to underestimate travel dista...
Gerd Bruder, Frank Steinicke, Phil Wieland, Markus...