An affordable optical head tracking system for desktop VR/AR systems

Proceedings of the Workshop on Virtual Environments, EGVE'03

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 215-223

  Mulder, Jurriaan D ^a   Jansen, Jack ^a   Van Rhijn, Arjen ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Desktop virtual and augmented reality; Optical head tracking

Indexed keywords

DOT PATTERNS; FIREWIRE CAMERA; HEAD TRACKERS; HEAD TRACKING; HEAD TRACKING SYSTEM; LOW COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; OPTICAL HEADS; VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY;

AUGMENTED REALITY; COSTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 84869046237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/769953.769978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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