Immersive VR for scientific visualization: A progress report

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 26-52

  Van Dam, Andries ^a,b   Forsberg, Andrew S ^a   Laidlaw, David H ^a,b   LaViola Jr , Joseph J ^a,c   Simpson, Rosemary M ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown Univerity   (United States)

^c Department of Virtual Environments

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY; HUMAN INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION; VIRTUAL RETINAL DISPLAY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0343371824     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/38.888006     Document Type: Article

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