Recently, people emerge as a contents provider with increasing usage of Internet in our daily life. People produces large portion of multimedia contents served on the Web. With this trend the personal broadcasting is being focused as a new application area of the Internet services. In this paper, we proposed VR@Home, a personal VR studio platform for personal broadcasting at home. VR@Home platf...

In this work, an equation of state has been utilized for thermodynamic modeling of aqueous electrolyte solutions. The proposed equation of state is a combination of simplified statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT) equation of state (similar to simplified PC-SAFT) to describe the effect of short-range interactions and mean spherical approximation (MSA) term to describe the effect of long-r...

Virtual-reality (VR) therapy has been distinguished from other psychotherapy interventions through the use of computer-assisted interventions that rely on the concepts of "immersion," "presence," and "synchrony." In this work, these concepts are defined, and their uses, within the VR treatment architecture, are discussed. VR therapy's emphasis on the incorporation of biofeedback and meditation,...

Acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the phase behaviour of mixtures of crude-oil with carbon dioxide and water is a key input for reservoir engineering in processes of enhanced oil recovery and geological storage of carbon dioxide. To gain an insight, given the very complex nature of crude-oil mixtures, the study of simpler systems is of interest. In this work the system (propane + carbo...

This course will provide attendees with the technical information needed to create their own compelling, scalable, interactive VR applications using VR Juggler. The course begins with the foundations needed for building VR Juggler applications. It follows with a session on VR Juggler scalability from shared memory high-end workstations to clusters of commodity PCs. The following sessions focus ...