VIRTUSPHERE: walking in a human size VR "hamster ball"

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 2102-2106

  Medina, Eliana ^a   Fruland, Ruth ^a   Weghorst, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN INTERACTIONS; HUMAN-SIZE; MOTION CUES; MOTION SICKNESS; MOVING PLATFORM; NAVIGATION TASKS; NOVICE USER; PHYSICAL RESPONSE; SIMULATOR SICKNESS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS; VISUAL CONDITION; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

ERGONOMICS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 70350582644     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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