Virtual reality approach in treating acrophobia: Simulating height in virtual environment

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 511-518

  Ibrahim, Nazrita ^a   Muhamad Balbed, Mustafa Agil ^a   Yusof, Azmi Mohd ^a   Mohammed Salleh, Faridah Hani ^a   Singh, Jaspaljeet ^a   Shahidan, Mohamad Shahrul ^a  

^a Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

3D Environment; Acrophobia; Virtools; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; VR system treatment

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; TALL BUILDINGS;

3D ENVIRONMENT; 3D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; ACROPHOBIA; HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY; VIRTOOLS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; VR SYSTEM TREATMENT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 48749121302     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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