Experiments in immersive virtual reality for scientific visualization

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 535-555

  Van Dam, Andries ^a   Laidlaw, David H ^a   Simpson, Rosemary Michelle ^a  

^a Brown Univerity   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS; USER INTERFACES;

IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY (IVR);

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0036696811     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(02)00113-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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