A survey of large high-resolution display technologies, techniques, and applications

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 223-236

  Ni, Tao ^a   Schmidt, Greg S ^b   Staadt, Oliver G ^c   Livingston, Mark A ^b   Ball, Robert ^a   May, Richard ^d  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Davis   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Distributed rendering; Evaluation; Interaction techniques; Large high resolution displays; Multi monitor; Projector array; User interfaces; Virtual environments; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED RENDERING; LARGE HIGH-RESOLUTION DISPLAYS; MULTI-MONITOR; PROJECTOR ARRAYS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 33750108470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2006.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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