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VR
1993
IEEE
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Presence in Immersive Virtual Environments
This paper describes an experiment where the effect of dynamic shadows in an immersive virtual environment is measured with respect to spatial perception and presence. Eight subjec...
Mel Slater, Martin Usoh
SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
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Moving objects in space: exploiting proprioception in virtual-environment interaction
Manipulation in immersive virtual environments is difficult partly because users must do without the haptic contact with real objects they rely on in the real world to orient them...
Mark R. Mine, Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Carlo H. S&...
VISUALIZATION
1997
IEEE
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Global tele-immersion
The term Tele-Immersion was first used in October 1996 as the title of a workshop the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) organize...
Thomas A. DeFanti
HICSS
1997
IEEE
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Retaining Body Language in Subjective Virtual Environments Using Artifact-Centred Coordinate Systems
Embodiment and subjectivity are important research issues for collaborative virtual environments. We claim that the direction and distance of an embodiment are the most important ...
Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, Dave Snowdon
VRST
1998
ACM
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Multi-resolution model transmission in distributed virtual environments
Distributed virtual environments allow users at di erent geographical locations to share and interact within a common virtual environment via a local network or through the Intern...
Jimmy H. P. Chim, Rynson W. H. Lau, Antonio Si, Ho...
VRST
1998
ACM
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The control of avatar motion using hand gesture
It is difficult to navigate virtual environment as in real world and to interact with other participant in virtual environment, especially wearing Head-Mounted Display (HMD). We d...
Chan-Su Lee, Sang-Won Ghyme, Chan-Jong Park, Kwang...
VRML
1998
ACM
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The Peloton Bicycling Simulator
Peloton is a sports simulator that uses the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) to create virtual environments for athletic training and competition. In particular, it create...
Gianpaolo U. Carraro, Mauricio Cortes, John T. Edm...
SIGGRAPH
1998
ACM
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A Beam Tracing Approach to Acoustic Modeling for Interactive Virtual Environments
Virtual environment research has focused on interactive image generation and has largely ignored acoustic modeling for spatialization of sound. Yet, realistic auditory cues can co...
Thomas A. Funkhouser, Ingrid Carlbom, Gary Elko, G...
VISUALIZATION
1998
IEEE
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Real-time techniques for 3D flow visualization
Visualization of three dimensional flow has to overcome a lot of problems to be effective. Among them are occlusion of distant details, lack of directional and depth hints and clu...
Anton L. Fuhrmann, Eduard Gröller
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Vibration Feedback Models for Virtual Environments
Vibrations can significantly enhance touch perception for virtual environment applications with minimal design complexity and cost. In order to create realistic vibrotactile feedb...
Allison M. Okamura, Stanford Dennerlein, Robert D....