How is presence in non-immersive, non-realistic virtual environments possible?

ACM International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality and Visualisation in Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 83-86

  Nunez, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Immersion; Non realistic environments; Presence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA PROCESSING;

IMMERSION; NON-REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; PRESENCE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 29144460116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1029949.1029964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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