A highly flexible virtual reality system

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 167-178

  Blach, Roland ^a   Landauer, Jürgen ^a   Rösch, Angela ^a   Simon, Andreas ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IAO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Authoring system; Immersive environments; Virtual environments; Virtual reality; Virtual reality development system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; USER INTERFACES;

AUTHORING SYSTEM; IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0032141223     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-739x(98)00019-3     Document Type: Article

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