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Immersive virtual reality (IVR) has been successfully exploited in the study of body ownership illusions — a topic that contributes to the question of how the human brain represents the body. This is made possible because with a head-tracked wide field of view head-mounted display, and other tracking and stimulation equipment, we can visually substitute a person's real body by a virtual body (VB),...
Paper documents such as passports, visas and banknotes are frequently checked by inspection of security elements. In particular, view-dependent elements such as holograms are interesting, but the expertise of individuals performing the task varies greatly. Augmented Reality systems can provide all relevant information on standard mobile devices. Hologram verification still takes long and causes considerable...
We present an efficient approach for probeless light estimation and coherent rendering of Augmented Reality in dynamic scenes. This approach can handle dynamically changing scene geometry and dynamically changing light sources in real time with a single mobile RGB-D sensor and without relying on an invasive lightprobe. We jointly filter both in-view dynamic geometry and outside-view static geometry...
Latency (i.e., time delay) in a Virtual Environment is known to disrupt user performance, presence and induce simulator sickness. However, can we utilize the effects caused by experiencing latency to benefit virtual rehabilitation technologies? We investigate this question by conducting an experiment that is aimed at altering gait by introducing latency applied to one side of a self-avatar with a...
Dynamic Projection Mapping, projection-based AR for a moving object without misalignment by a high-speed optical axis controller by rotational mirrors, has a trade-off between stability of highspeed tracking and high visibility for a variety of projection content. In this paper, a system that will provide robust high-speed tracking without any markers on objects against illumination changes, including...
We introduce a method for using multiple devices as windows for interacting with 3-D virtual environment. Motivation of our work has come from generating collaborative workspace with multiple devices which can be found in our daily lives, like desktop PC and mobile devices. Provided with life size virtual environment, each device shows a scene of 3-D virtual space on its position and direction, and...
We propose a three dimensional position measurement method employing planar photo detectors to calibrate a Spatial Augmented Reality system of unknown geometry. In Spatial Augmented Reality, projectors overlay images onto an object in the physical environment. For this purpose, the alignment of the images and physical objects is required. Traditional camera based 3D position tracking systems, such...
In this study, we investigated the ability of blindfolded adults to discriminate between concave and convex auditory virtual surfaces. We used a Leap MotionTM device to measure the movements of the hand and fingers. Participants were asked to explore the space above the device with the palm of one hand and an auditory feedback was produced only when the palm was moving into the boundaries of the surface...
Today smells are used for communicating information about products as household cleaners and food. However, smells can be also applied to any kind of products. Several researches have focused on integrating smells in virtual environments. The research questions addressed in this work concern whether Virtual Prototypes, including the sense of smell, can be used for evaluating products as effectively...
We present a system, intended for automotive design review use cases, that incorporates a tracked tablet in a CAVE, where both the tablet and the CAVE provide different views and interaction possibilities within the same virtual scene. At its core, this idea is not novel. However, the literature reveals few examples of this paradigm in which virtual information is presented on a second physical device...
In a Multi-stereoscopic immersive system, several users sharing the same restricted workspace, e.g. a CAVE, may need to perform independent navigation to achieve loosely coupled collaboration tasks for a complex scenario. In this context, a proper navigation paradigm should provide users both an efficient control of virtual navigation and a guarantee of users' safety in the real workspace relative...
The International Air Transport Association forecasts that there will be at least a 30% increase in passenger demand for flights over the next five years. In these circumstances the aircraft industry is looking for new ways to keep passengers occupied, entertained and healthy, and one of the methods under consideration is immersive virtual reality. It is therefore becoming important to understand...
3D applications appear in every corner of life in the current technology era. There is a need for an ubiquitous 3D input device that works with many different platforms, from head-mounted displays (HMDs) to mobile touch devices, 3DTVs, and even the Cave Automatic Virtual Environments. We present 3DTouch, a novel wearable 3D input device worn on the fingertip for 3D manipulation tasks. 3DTouch is designed...
Onew360 is a training simulator for simulating gas metal arc welding (GMAW) welding. This system is comprised of standard welding hardware components (helmet, gun, work-piece), a PC, a head-mounted display, a tracking system for both the torch and the user's head, and external audio speakers. The track model of welding simulator using single-camera vision measurement technology to calculate the position...
In this paper we present a study of the impact of avatar realism on user experience and performance in stressful immersive virtual environments. We evaluated a stressful and a stress-free environment with partial avatar embodiment under low (iconic) or high (photorealistic) visual fidelity conditions. An experiment with forty participants did not reveal any significant differences between both graphical...
Context-dependent memory studies have indicated that olfaction, the sense of smell, has a special odor memory that can significantly improve recall in some cases. Virtual reality (VR), which has been investigated as a training tool, could feasibly benefit from odor memory by incorporating olfactory stimuli. There have been a few studies on this concept for semantic learning, but not for procedural...
One of the goals of much virtual reality (VR) research is to increase realism. In particular, many techniques for locomotion in VR attempt to approximate real-world walking. However, it is not yet fully understood how the design of more realistic locomotion techniques affects user task performance. We performed an experiment to compare a semi-natural locomotion technique (based on the Virtusphere...
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