Egocentric distance perception in large screen immersive displays

Displays

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-164

  Piryankova, Ivelina V ^a,d   De La Rosa, Stephan ^a   Kloos, Uwe ^b   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a,c   Mohler, Betty J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b REUTLINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d Centre for Integrative Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D computer graphics; Depth perception; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; MOBILE COMPUTING; SENSORY PERCEPTION; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

3D COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; LARGE SCREEN DISPLAYS; LARGE-SCREEN IMMERSIVE DISPLAYS; MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS;

DEPTH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84886950077     PISSN: 01419382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.displa.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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