Evaluation of a low-cost 3D sound system for immersive virtual reality training systems

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 204-212

  Doerr, Kai Uwe ^a,b   Rademacher, Holger ^c   Huesgen, Silke ^c   Kubbat, Wolfgang ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of California Irvine   (United States)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3d sound simulation; Virtual environments; Virtual training

Indexed keywords

LOCALIZING SIMULATED SOUND; SOUND SIMULATION; VIRTUAL TRAINING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRACKING (POSITION); VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TEACHING;

ACOUSTICS; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; ECOSYSTEM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33846587476     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.37     Document Type: Article

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