Visual Realism Enhances Realistic Response in an Immersive Virtual Environment

An Immersive Virtual Environment for Special Relativity

This paper presents an immersive virtual environment which allows the user to virtually explore and experience special relativity, including phenomena such as Lorentz contraction, time dilation, aberration, and finite speed of light. The relativistic-vehicle-control metaphor is introduced for navigating at high velocities. This is a physically based camera control technique. Accelerations of th...

Highly-realistic, immersive training environment for hysteroscopy.

The primary driving application of our current research is the development of a generic surgical training simulator for hysteroscopy. A key target is to go beyond rehearsal of basic manipulative skills, and enable training of procedural skills like decision making and problem solving. In this respect, the sense of presence plays an important role in the achievable training effect. To enable use...

Eye Movements, Visual Search and Scene Memory in an Immersive Virtual Environment APPROVED BY SUPERVISING COMMITTEE:

Eye Movements, Visual Search and Scene Memory, in an Immersive Virtual Environment

Visual memory has been demonstrated to play a role in both visual search and attentional prioritization in natural scenes. However, it has been studied predominantly in experimental paradigms using multiple two-dimensional images. Natural experience, however, entails prolonged immersion in a limited number of three-dimensional environments. The goal of the present experiment was to recreate cir...

‘My Virtual Dream’: Collective Neurofeedback in an Immersive Art Environment

While human brains are specialized for complex and variable real world tasks, most neuroscience studies reduce environmental complexity, which limits the range of behaviours that can be explored. Motivated to overcome this limitation, we conducted a large-scale experiment with electroencephalography (EEG) based brain-computer interface (BCI) technology as part of an immersive multi-media scienc...