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HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
A New Coupling Scheme for Haptic Rendering of Rigid Bodies Interactions Based on a Haptic Sub-world Using a Contact Graph
Interactions with virtual worlds using the sense of touch, called haptic rendering, have natural applications in many domains such as health or industry. For an accurate and realis...
Loeiz Glondu, Maud Marchal, Georges Dumont
CHI
1999
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Bridging Strategies for VR-Based Learning
A distributed immersive virtual environment was deployed as a component of a pedagogical strategy for teaching third grade children that the Earth is round. The displacement strat...
Thomas G. Moher, Andrew E. Johnson, Stellan Ohlsso...
PSYCHNOLOGY
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Being Inside the Quantum Atom
This article explores the possibility of using dynamic Educational Virtual Environments (EVEs) for helping students with limited background in physics and mathematics to deeply un...
Assimina M. Kontogeorgiou, Joan Bellou, Tassos A. ...
CGI
2004
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Physically-Based Simulation of Objects Represented by Surface Meshes
Objects and scenes in virtual worlds such as 3-d computer games are typically represented by polygonal surface meshes. On the other hand, physically-based simulations of deformati...
Matthias Müller, Matthias Teschner, Markus H....
VRML
1999
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Avatars in LivingSpace
We describe how we implemented the avatars we use to represent users in LivingSpace, our implementation of the Living Worlds standard for multi-user distributed VRML worlds. Livin...
Mike Wray, Vincent Belrose