Using Visual Effects to Facilitate Depth Perception for Spatial Tasks in Virtual and Augmented Reality

Adjunct Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 172-177

  Cidota, Marina A ^a   Clifford, Rory M S ^b   Lukosch, Stephan G ^a   Billinghurst, Mark ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

AR; Depth Perception; HMD; Immersion; Natural Hand Interaction; Presence; Stereo Vision; Visual Effects; VR

Indexed keywords

ARGON; AUGMENTED REALITY; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; SERIOUS GAMES; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; STEREO VISION;

AUGMENTED ENVIRONMENTS; AUGMENTED/VIRTUAL REALITY; IMMERSION; NATURAL HAND INTERACTION; PRESENCE; VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY; VIRTUAL OBJECTS; VISUAL EFFECTS;

DEPTH PERCEPTION;

EID: 85015244975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct.2016.0070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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