Real-time interactions and synchronization of voxel-based collaborative virtual environments

IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2007 - Proceedings, 3DUI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 131-137

  Acosta, Eric ^a   Liu, Alan ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative virtual environment; Depth buffered image; Remote volume rendering; Surgical simulation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

3-D MODELING; 3D USER INTERFACES; BONE CUTTING; BONE-DRILLING; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; DEPTH BUFFERED IMAGE; HAPTIC FEEDBACKS; IMPROVED PERFORMANCE; LOCAL APPROXIMATION; MULTI-RATE; REMOTE VOLUME RENDERING; RENDERED IMAGES; SURGICAL SIMULATION; SURGICAL SIMULATORS; SURGICAL TOOLS;

BONE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; HAPTIC INTERFACES; SIMULATORS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CUTTING TOOLS;

EID: 53049083328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/3DUI.2007.340785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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