Measuring latency in virtual environments

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 616-625

  Friston, Sebastian ^a   Steed, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Latency; measurement

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENTS;

HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; LATENCY; LATENCY MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MEASURING LATENCY; MECHANICAL SIMULATORS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIDEORECORDING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84897455202     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.30     Document Type: Article

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