Simulating virtual environments within virtual environments as the basis for a psychophysics of presence

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Slater, Mel ^a   Spanlang, Bernhard ^b   Corominas, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Immersive virtual environments; Markov chain; Place Illusion; Plausibility; Presence; Response function

Indexed keywords

IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MARKOV CHAIN; PLACE ILLUSION; PLAUSIBILITY; PRESENCE; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS;

COLOR MATCHING; MARKOV PROCESSES; PHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77956384053     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1778765.1778829     Document Type: Article

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