A system for exploring large virtual environments that combines scaled translational gain and interventions

Proceedings - APGV 2010: Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 65-72

  Xie, Xianshi ^a   Lin, Qiufeng ^a   Wu, Haojie ^a   Narasimham, Gayathri ^a   McNamara, Timothy P ^a   Rieser, John ^a   Bodenheimer, Bobby ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Space perception; Virtual reality (VR)

Indexed keywords

BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION; COGNITIVE COSTS; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; OPTIC FLOW; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL AWARENESS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL SPACES;

COMBINES; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77956235165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1836248.1836260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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