Virtual Reality: Beyond Visualization

Collaborative virtual environments: going beyond virtual reality

With the growing demand for collaboration technologies, several CSCW (Compute-Supported Cooperative Work) systems have been developed. CVEs (Collaborative Virtual Environments) represent an important category of CSCW systems that generally make use of 3D shared space to provide collaboration facilities. However in most CVEs collaboration is restricted to the Virtual Reality context. In this pap...

24 Visualization Using Virtual Reality

24.1.2 Virtual Reality What we now often refer to as virtual reality was first proposed in the 1960s [16,38,39]. In addition to the term ‘‘virtual reality,’’ many other terms such as ‘‘virtual environments,’’ ‘‘synthetic environments,’’ ‘‘virtual worlds,’’ and ‘‘artificial reality’’ have been used. Virtual reality has the capability of providing sensory information of sufficient fidelity that t...

Scientific Visualization in Virtual Reality

We present Studierstube our multi-user virtual environment and its application in the area of scientific visualization. We discuss concepts and advantages of using augmented reality – where the real environment is overlaid by computer generated images – as userinterface to complex, three-dimensional visualizations. We describe our experiences with such a system and propose future work in the ar...

Modular Virtual Reality Visualization Tools

We describe a collection of tools designed to be used in a Modular Visualization Environment (MVE) that facilitate the use of a Virtual Reality (VR) input device. VR input devices provide the means to easily and intuitively specify information which is threeor six-dimensional. Many scientific visualization tasks require this type of information. Our goal is to reduce the user interface complexi...

Modular Virtual Reality Visualization Tools