HMD calibration and its effects on distance judgments

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Kuhl, Scott A ^a   Thompson, William B ^a   Creem Regehr, Sarah H ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Field of view; Immersive virtual environment; Minification; Perception; Pincushion distortion; Pitch

Indexed keywords

FIELD OF VIEW; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; MINIFICATION; PERCEPTION; PINCUSHION DISTORTION; PITCH;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

EID: 70349103388     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1577755.1577762     Document Type: Article

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