Space perception in virtual environments: Displacement from the center of projection causes less distortion than predicted by cue-based models

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kelly, Jonathan W ^a   Burton, Melissa ^a   Pollock, Brice ^a   Rubio, Eduardo ^a   Curtis, Michael ^a   De La Cruz, Julio ^b   Gilbert, Stephen ^a   Winer, Eliot ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth perception; Stereoscopic displays; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC EFFECTS; CENTER OF PROJECTIONS; FORWARD DISPLACEMENTS; MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; SPATIAL PROPERTIES; STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY; VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEM;

BINOCULARS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FORECASTING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84891767530     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2536764.2536765     Document Type: Article

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