Perceiving simulated ego-motions in virtual reality -comparing large screen displays with HMDs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5666, Issue , 2005, Pages 344-355

  Riecke, Bernhard E ^a   Schulte Pelkum, Jörg ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

HMD; Motion simulator; Navigation; Projection screen; Psychophysics; Self motion; Spatial cognition; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; NAVIGATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROJECTION SCREENS; VISUALIZATION;

MOTION SIMULATORS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SELF-MOTION; SPATIAL COGNITION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 21944441373     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.610846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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