Background & Aims: Many complications could follow the operation as one of many treatments for cardiac problems. Anxiety is one of these complications, which could be perilous for patients affecting their hemodynamics before surgery. This research aimed to determine the effect of virtual tour training and orientation by nurses on patients' anxiety levels. Materials & Methods: This study is a p...

New opportunities emerge when mixed reality environments are augmented with wide field of view displays and full body, realtime tracking. Such systems will allow users see a correctly tracked representation of themselves in the virtual environment, and allow users to “share space” with other virtual humans in the virtual environment. Furthermore, such systems will be able to use tracking data t...

Technological progress infiltrated physical space of the organizations with cables, wires, monitors, landlines, blackberries, cameras, tablets up to the point, when we happened to witness the birth of the new, virtual, space. Here control and monitoring seems non-existent and unnecessary. But in fact, it is ingrained in the structure of the virtual space by means of technology which makes virtu...

The effects of real-world tool use on body or space representations are relatively well established in cognitive neuroscience. Several studies have shown, for example, that active tool use results in a facilitated integration of multisensory information in peripersonal space, i.e. the space directly surrounding the body. However, it remains unknown to what extent similar mechanisms apply to the...

The Virtual SpacePlane (VSP) is a realistic prototype of the Manned SpacePlane (MSP) and simulates a number of the MSP missions in a realistic manner. To increase the realism of the space environment and space mission planning, we inserted a portrayal of space weather into the VSP’s virtual environment. In this paper we present background on the VSP project, space weather, and describe the requ...

In this paper, we propose a widget-based simulator for testing smart space by using virtual space. It is especially useful within this simulation field, because virtual space alleviates limited constraints such as time, space, technique, and cost. Researchers within this ubiquitous computing field use virtual space to simulate entities such as sensors, actuators, and services. Previous works fo...

When a networked virtual reality system handles composite media audio and video as well as three dimensional computer graphics, the quality of the virtual space is also greatly affected by the currently available network and end system resources. In this paper, we discuss the architecture of a networked virtual reality system C3. We propose a new criterion called IoP(Importance of presence) for...

Computing, networking and virtual reality technologies are gradually approaching the level of maturity where large scale multi-user virtual environments will be possible. This will inevitably lead to the development of large scale spaces for the on-line community to meet, socialise and carry out business. We might consider these environments to be virtual towns or, eventually, virtual cities wh...