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The scope of
The following list identifies key areas of VR research and development. It
is drawn from our studies of the VR literature and is presented here as a
yardstick against which to judge U.K. activities.
- Psychological aspects.
- Factors which make for successful system
use -- perceptual versus cognitive loads, representations, performance
issues, acceptance studies (e.g., motion sickness etc.).
- Interaction paradigms and techniques.
- Addressing the difficulties
of interacting in 3D. Issues such as navigation and orientation.
- Hardware.
- Performance issues -- display speed, tracking devices,
problems of latency, input devices.
- Algorithms.
- Spatial management, culling and level of detail
algorithms, collision detection.
- Software architectures.
- Toolkits, providing consistent interfaces,
API, distributed and concurrent processing, cooperative working, systems
for managing the virtual environment as a whole, maintaining
synchronisation.
- Applications.
- How to exploit VR. Determining the contexts in which
it is appropriate. Constructing specific application demonstrators.
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Virtual Environments Visualisation
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