Enhancing presence in head-mounted display environments by visual body feedback using head-mounted cameras

2009 International Conference on CyberWorlds, CW '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 43-50

  Bruder, Gerd ^a   Steinicke, Frank ^a   Rothaus, Kai ^a   Hinrichs, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Augmented virtuality; Head mounted displays; Presence

Indexed keywords

BODY MODELS; BODY MOVEMENTS; CAMERA IMAGES; FULL-BODY MOTIONS; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; REAL-WORLD; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

CAMERAS; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 72349088533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CW.2009.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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