Browsing IPT/EGVE 2003: 7th International Workshop on Immersive Projection Technology, 9th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Enviroments by Issue Date

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    • Gearbox Widget for Fine Adjustments by Hand Motion 

      OSAWA, Noritaka; REN, Xiangshi (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      manipulation by hand is not suitable for making fine adjustments to virtual objects in an immersive environment because it is difficult to hold an unsupported hand in midair and then to release an object at a fixed point. ...

    • An Innovative Design Approach to Build Virtual Environment Systems 

      Oliveira, M.; Crowcroft, J.; Slater, M. (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      A Virtual Environment (VE) presents a complex problem with interesting non-trivial challenges for software development. The majority of existing systems supporting VE are based on monolithic architectures, making maintenance ...

    • Color Consistency for Digital Multi-Projector Stereo Display Systems : The HEyeWall and The Digital CAVE 

      Kresse, W.; Reiners, D.; Knöpfle, C. (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      Digital projectors have a significant advantage over CRTs for IPT setups: brightness. But they also have a number of disadvantages, one of which is color consistency. This problem is exacerbated when using the Infitec ...

    • Haptic Rendering of Complex Force Fields 

      Krenek, Ales (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      With a particular focus in scientific applications, we propose a method of haptic rendering of virtual environments which require rather complex calculations to evaluate their behaviour. Therefore it is not possible to ...

    • A Panoramic Walkthrough System with Occlusion Culling 

      Yang, Lining; Crawfis, Roger (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      The interactive and high quality rendering of very complex scenes in a virtual environment is very difficult if not impossible to achieve. This research extends our previous EGVE paper that presents a panoramic walkthrough ...

    • A vision-based head tracking system for fully immersive displays 

      Hogue, A.; Robinson, M.; Jenkin, M. R.; Allison, R. S. (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      Six-sided fully immersive projective displays present complex and novel problems for tracking systems. Existing tracking technologies typically require tracking equipment that is placed in locations or at- tached to the ...

    • Immersive VR Decision Training: Telling Interactive Stories Featuring Advanced Virtual Human Simulation Technologies 

      Ponder, Michal; Herbelin, Bruno; Molet, Tom; Schertenlieb, Sebastien; Ulicny, Branislav; Papagiannakis, George; Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia; Thalmann, Daniel (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      Based on the premise of a synergy between the interactive storytelling and VR training simulation this paper treats the main issues involved in practical realization of an immersive VR decision training system supporting ...

    • The blue-c Distributed Scene Graph 

      Naef, Martin; Lamboray, Edouard; Staadt, Oliver; Gross, Markus (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      In this paper we present a distributed scene graph architecture for use in the blue-c, a novel collaborative immersive virtual environment. We extend the widely used OpenGL Performer toolkit to provide a distributed scene ...

    • The Virtual Showcase as a new Platform for Augmented Reality Digital Storytelling ve 

      Bimber, Oliver; Encarnação, L. Miguel; Schmalstieg, Dieter (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      In this paper we discuss a case study for which we applied a customized augmented reality display - the Virtual Showcase - as a new platform for digital storytelling. Different storytelling components are identified and ...

    • Double Exponential Smoothing: An Alternative to Kalman Filter-Based Predictive Tracking 

      Jr., Joseph J. LaViola (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      We present novel algorithms for predictive tracking of user position and orientation based on double exponential smoothing. These algorithms, when compared against Kalman and extended Kalman filter-based predictors with ...

    • The ToolFinger: Supporting Complex Direct Manipulation in Virtual Environments 

      Wesche, Gerold (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      Virtual environments (VEs) such as the Responsive Workbench were designed to support interactive, complex applications. The possibility of direct manual interaction with virtual objects, using both hands in a natural, ...

    • Fast Approximate Visible Set Determination for Point Sample Clouds 

      Mantler, Stephan; Fuhrmann, Anton L. (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      We present a fast, efficient method to determine approximate visible sets for vegetation rendered as point sample clouds. A hardware accelerated preprocessing step is used to determine exact visibility for a selected set ...

    • Interacting with real time simulations - virtual reality in industry applications 

      Jönsson, A.; Bathelt, J.; Broman, G. (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      Modern manufacturing machines are highly multidisciplinary, and with demands on short time-to-market, product development based on traditional prototype testing has become impractical. By using virtual models, it is possible ...

    • An Affordable Optical Head Tracking System for Desktop VR/AR Systems 

      Mulder, Jurriaan D.; Jansen, Jack; Rhijn, Arjen van (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      We present an affordable optical head tracking system for desktop-like VR/AR environments. The generic and specific head tracking requirements for these type of environments are defined, as well as the relaxations such ...

    • A Virtual Environment for Conceptual Design in Architecture 

      Anderson, Lee; Esser, James; Interrante, Victoria (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      We present a virtual environment application that has been developed for conceptual design in architecture and seeks to emulate aspects of a typical designer's work area. The environment provides a means of creating and ...

    • Architecture of the virtual training system for buoyancy control 

      Korosec, Dean; Slavinec, Mitja; Bernad, Dani; Kolaric, Primoz; Prnaver, Katja (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      In this paper we present the structure of the simulator which would allow diving beginners to experience the effect of buoyancy control mechanisms before actually entering the water.We believe such training would be less ...

    • Color Gamut Matching for Tiled DisplayWalls 

      Wallace, Grant; Chen, Han; Li, Kai (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      This paper presents a non-parametric full-gamut color matching algorithm. Color matching is important for the seamless appearance of tiled displays. In particular we address the case where the tiled display is composed of ...

    • Search Space Reduction in Optical Tracking 

      Liere, Robert van; Rhijn, Arjen van (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      In this paper we present a practical method for reducing the space when searching for point patterns in optically tracked virtual reality applications. The method uses a predictor to estimate the future position of a point. ...

    • Immersive Sound Field Simulation in Multi-screen Projection Displays 

      Ogi, T.; Kayahara, T.; Kato, M.; Asayama, H.; Hirose, M. (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      This paper describes the immersive sound field simulation technology that represents an interactive sound field in the multi-screen projection display. In this method, convolution filters, that were calculated based on the ...

    • Virtual Reality in Web-Based Training Programs 

      Leibl, P. (The Eurographics Association, 2003)
      This paper illustrates the use of a virtual environment (VE) in universities and private industry educational programs and training. The principles are demonstrated in the field of the design of plastic moulded parts under ...