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VR
1999
IEEE
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Third-Person Navigation of Whole-Planet Terrain in a Head-tracked Stereoscopic Environment
Navigation and interaction in virtual environments that use stereoscopic head-tracked displays and have very large data sets present several challenges beyond those encountered wi...
Zachary Wartell, William Ribarsky, Larry F. Hodges
VR
1999
IEEE
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A Virtual Assembly Design Environment
The Virtual Assembly Design Environment (VADE) is a Virtual Reality (VR) based engineering application which allows engineers to evaluate, analyze, and plan the assembly of mechan...
Sankar Jayaram, Yong Wang, Uma Jayaram, Kevin W. L...
VR
1999
IEEE
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The Benefits of Statistical Visualization in an Immersive Environment
We have created an immersive application for statistical graphics and have investigated what benefits it offers over more traditional data analysis tools. This paper presents a de...
Laura L. Arns, Dianne Cook, Carolina Cruz-Neira
VRML
1999
ACM
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An Open Virtual Environment for Autonomous Agents Using VRML and Java
We describe a VRML/Java-based virtual environment that is populated with heterogeneous articulated agents. In this simulated environment, agents compete for collecting certain obj...
Bernhard Jung, Jan-Torsten Milde
SIGGRAPH
1999
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Real-Time Acoustic Modeling for Distributed Virtual Environments
Realistic acoustic modeling is essential for spatializing sound in distributed virtual environments where multiple networked users move around and interact visually and aurally in...
Thomas A. Funkhouser, Patrick Min, Ingrid Carlbom
VR
2000
IEEE
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Virtual Environment Applications in Clinical Neuropsychology
Virtual Reality has undergone a transition in the past few years that has taken from the realm of expensive toy into that of functional technology. This emerging computer-driven s...
Albert A. Rizzo, J. Galen Buckwalter, Cheryl van d...
VR
2000
IEEE
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Multimodal Menu Presentation and Selection in Immersive Virtual Environments
Usability has become one of the key ingredients in making virtual reality (VR) systems work, and a big part of a usable VR system is in the design of effective interface/interacti...
Namgyu Kim, Gerard Jounghyun Kim, Chan-Mo Park, In...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Haptic Interaction with Global Deformations
Force feedback coupled with a real-time physically realistic graphic display provides a human operator with an artificial sense of presence in a virtual environment. Furthermore,...
Yan Zhuang, John F. Canny
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Stable Haptic Interaction Using the Excalibur Force Display
Creating a compelling haptic sense of immersion in a virtual environment is a challenging task for the control engineer. A haptic display must render both low impedance free-space...
Richard J. Adams, Daniel Klowden, Blake Hannaford
MASA
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Motivated Agent Behaviour and Requirements Applied to Virtual Emergencies
Virtual environments provide a rich and varied domain for intelligent agents, but questions of design and development in this context are still to be answered. An agent with multip...
Sorabain Wolfheart de Lioncourt, Michael Luck