‘No Sense of Reality’

The Sense of Embodiment in Virtual Reality

What does it feel like to own, to control, and to be inside a body? The multidimensional nature of this experience together with the continuous presence of one’s biological body, render both theoretical and experimental approaches problematic. Nevertheless, exploitation of immersive virtual reality has allowed a reframing of this question to whether it is possible to experience the same sensati...

Sense-Enabled Mixed Reality Museum Exhibitions

During the past few years museums and other cultural heritage institutions have started making use of handheld technologies to provide tourist guides to their visitors. For open-air sites, a number of experimental and commercial applications have been developed based on location-based guides. However, in museum environments static audiovisual guides are the dominant technologies used. In this p...

Why Innovation Theories Make no Sense

Interaction Affecting the Sense of Presence in Virtual Reality

thesis originates from an overall project by the Delft University of Technology and the University of Amsterdam on the treatment of phobias using the so-called Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET, see also Schuemie et al. 2000a and iii SUMMARY Virtual Reality (VR) has been proposed as a new tool for treating phobias. Using the so-called Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) it is thought t...

6th Sense System Augmented Reality Chemical Plant Supervision System

This project aims at the realization of a wearable supervision system for chemical installations based on the augmented reality paradigm. Augmented reality improves the perception the operator has of his surrounding environment by overlaying real-time computer-generated images onto the real world. This document describes the work realized from the beginning of this year. The first step was to i...