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VR
2008
IEEE
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User Boresighting for AR Calibration: A Preliminary Analysis
The precision with which users can maintain boresight alignment between visual targets at different depths is recorded for 24 subjects using two different boresight targets. Subje...
Magnus Axholt, Stephen Peterson, Stephen R. Ellis
VR
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
The Two-User Seating Buck: Enabling Face-to-Face Discussions of Novel Car Interface Concepts
The automotive industry uses physical seating bucks, which are minimal mockups of a car interior, to assess various aspects of the planned interior early in the development proces...
Holger Salzmann, Bernd Froehlich
VR
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
The Effects of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Motion Parallax on Egocentric Depth Perception
As the use of virtual and augmented reality applications becomes more common, the need to fully understand how observers perceive spatial relationships grows more critical. One of...
Adam Jones, J. Edward Swan II, Gurjot Singh, Eric ...
VR
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Envisor: Online Environment Map Construction for Mixed Reality
One of the main goals of anywhere augmentation is the development of automatic algorithms for scene acquisition in augmented reality systems. In this paper, we present Envisor, a ...
Stephen DiVerdi, Jason Wither, Tobias Höllere...
VR
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
An Evaluation of Immersive Displays for Virtual Human Experiences
This paper compares a large-screen display to a non-stereo head-mounted display (HMD) for a virtual human (VH) experience. As VH experiences are increasingly being applied to trai...
Kyle Johnsen, Benjamin Lok
VR
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Conversational Pointing Gestures for Virtual Reality Interaction: Implications from an Empirical Study
Interaction in conversational interfaces strongly relies on the system’s capability to interpret the user’s references to objects via deictic expressions. Deictic gestures, es...
Thies Pfeiffer, Marc Erich Latoschik, Ipke Wachsmu...
VR
2008
IEEE
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Object-Capability Security in Virtual Environments
Access control is an important aspect of shared virtual environments. Resource access may not only depend on prior authorization, but also on context of usage such as distance or ...
Martin Scheffler, Jan P. Springer, Bernd Froehlich
VR
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Showing Users the Way: Signs in Virtual Worlds
In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study designed to evaluate the impact of signs as navigation aids in virtual worlds. Test subjects were divided into three groups (...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Stacy Rilea
VR
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Psychophysical Influence on Tactual Impression by Mixed-Reality Visual Stimulation
This paper describes the influence of visual stimulation on the tactual sense in a mixed-reality environment; i.e., how a tactual impression of a real object is affected by seeing...
Akiko Iesaki, Akihiro Somada, Asako Kimura, Fumihi...
VR
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Creating a Speech Enabled Avatar from a Single Photograph
This paper presents a complete framework for creating a speechenabled avatar from a single image of a person. Our approach uses a generic facial motion model which represents defo...
Dmitri Bitouk, Shree K. Nayar