Distance perception in real and virtual environments

Proceedings - 1st Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, APGV 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 27-34

  Plumert, Jodie M ^a   Kearney, Joseph K ^a   Cremer, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance estimation; Large screen immersive displays; Perception; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISPLAY DEVICES; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; MOTION ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DISTANCE ESTIMATION; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; LARGE-SCREEN IMMERSIVE DISPLAYS; VISUALLY GUIDED JUDGEMENTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 14344264752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1012551.1012557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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