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HAPTICS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Passive set-position modulation approach for haptics with slow, variable, and asynchronous update
We consider the following problem in haptics: information update from the virtual world is slow w.r.t. the local servo-loop rate of the haptic device, and the information transmis...
Dongjun Lee, Ke Huang
ICAT
2003
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
In virtual reality, which way is up?
Virtual reality is often used to simulate environments in which the direction of up is not aligned with the normal direction of gravity or the body. How effective are these enviro...
Heather Jenkin, Richard Dyde, Michael Jenkin, Laur...
ICDE
1998
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
The Alps at Your Fingertips: Virtual Reality and Geoinformation Systems
We advocate a desktop virtual reality (VR) interface to a geographic information system (GIS). The navigational capability to explore large topographic scenes is a powerful metaph...
Renato Pajarola, Thomas Ohler, Peter Stucki, Korne...
CG
2006
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Function-based shape modelling extension of the Virtual Reality Modelling Language
In this paper we propose a new approach to web visualisation with VRML based on a function-based shape modelling, which unifies different types of mathematical functions in order ...
Qi Liu, Alexei Sourin
IJVR
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
A Decade of Research and Development in Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies: Review of ICDVRAT 1996-2006
—The International Conference (series) on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies (ICDVRAT) this year held its sixth biennial conference, celebrating ten years of...
S. V. G. Cobb, Paul M. Sharkey