A psychophysically calibrated controller for navigating through large environments in a limited free-walking space

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 157-164

  Engel, David ^a   Curio, Cristóbal ^a   Tcheang, Lili ^b   Mohler, Betty ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Motion compression; Rotational gains; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

MOTION COMPRESSIONS; MOTION-COMPRESSION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDIES; REAL-TIME CONTROLLERS; ROTATIONAL GAINS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

CONTROLLERS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 63449120718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1450579.1450612     Document Type: Conference Paper

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