Torus Treadmill: Realizing locomotion in VEs

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 30-35

  Iwata, Hiroo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ERGONOMICS; EXERCISE EQUIPMENT; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); VIRTUAL REALITY;

LOCOMOTION INTERFACES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0033312893     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/38.799737     Document Type: Article

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