Entertainment virtual reality system for simulation of spaceflights over the surface of the planet Mars

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 123-132

  Olanda, Ricardo ^a   Pérez, Manolo ^a   Morillo, Pedr ^a   Fernández, Marcos ^a   Casas, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Entertainment virtual reality; Immersive visualization systems; Terrain representation

Indexed keywords

PLANETS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE RESEARCH;

ASTRONOMERS; IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS; OROGRAPHY; TERRAIN REPRESENTATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34547396478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180495.1180522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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