Quantifying the benefits of immersion for collaboration in Virtual Environments

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 78-81

  Narayan, Michael ^a   Waugh, Leo ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyu ^a   Bafna, Pradyut ^a   Bowman, Doug ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative Virtual Environments; Head tracking; Immersion; Stereo

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; HEAD TRACKING; IMMERSION; STEREO;

INFORMATION THEORY; TRACKING (POSITION); USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 33748688276     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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