In this paper we present a exploratory study on the physiological responses when experiencing motion sickness in Virtual Reality (VR). To this end, we developed a VR application that can induce motion sickness. Using it, ...

This paper presents a concept and a tool suite for authoring, configuring, organizing and displaying 3D virtual galleries, depicting multimedia content, like art, picture, movie or any other kind of media, which are ...

Virtual Reality (VR) systems may be used with great effectiveness in applications such as urban planning, virtual tourism, cultural heritage and education. In fact, the VR systems allow the visualization and interaction ...

Characters, like other articulated objects and structures, are typically simulated using articulated dynamics algorithms. There are efficient linear-time algorithms for the simulation of open-chain articulated bodies, but ...

Multiuser computer systems allow several users to collaborate on the same task. Medium sized displays, like workbenches or tabletops provide a shared view of the task and a set of input devices to interface with the system. ...

ln the context of project Ciência Viva da Mina do Lousa/, it was decided to construct an immersive virtual reality environment in which a group ofpeople, for example students, can do a virtual visit to a mine. This artic/e ...

Virtual and Augmented reality are developing rapidly: there is a multitude of environments and experiments in several laboratories using from simple HMD visualization to more complex and expensive 6-wall projection, CAVEs, ...

This paper present a monitor based prototype for visualization and interaction of an Augmented Reality (AR) system. It had been recently developed at CCG and demonstrated on the conference SIACG2002 at Guimarães, Portugal. ...

This paper describes some experiences with the use of the MAVERIK system for supporting undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research. MAVERIK is a high-level system for creating and managing interactive virtual ...