Virtual Reality Software & Technology: Proceedings of the Vrst '94 Conference 23-26 August 1994, Singapore

by Singh, Gurminder; Feiner, Steven K.; Thalmann, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9789810218676
• ISBN10: 9810218672
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-09-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Proceedings of the VRST 94 conference held August 23-26, 1994 in Singapore.

Table of Contents

Preface
Conference Committee and Sponsors
Facing the Challenge: Delivering Virtual Reality	p. 1
Natural Gesture in Virtual Environments	p. 5
Towards a Vision-Based Hand Gesture Interface	p. 17
A Logical Hand Device in Virtual Environments	p. 33
Steps and Ladders in Virtual Reality	p. 45
Fuzzy Aggregation of Motion Factors for Human Motion Generation	p. 55
A Geometric Modeling and Animation System for Virtual Reality	p. 71
A User-Defined Virtual Environment Dialogue Architecture	p. 87
Designing in Virtual Reality: Implementing Perceptual-Action Coupling with Affordances	p. 97
The Virtual Workbench: Dextrous VR	p. 111
Virtual Reality Technologies and its Applications to Industrial Use	p. 125
Multisensory Scientific Data Sensualization Through Virtual Reality Technology	p. 145
An Inertial Head-Orientation Tracker with Automatic Drift Compensation for use with HMD's	p. 159
A New Ultrasonic Positioning Principle Yielding Pseudo-Absolute Location	p. 175
A Study on the Synthesis of Environmental Sounds	p. 185
Virtual Environments in Scientific Visualization	p. 201
Managing Mutual Awareness in Collaborative Virtual Environments	p. 223
Real Time Graphics and VR for Driving Simulation in Urban Environments	p. 237
Envisionments - Constructing Dramatic Virtual Worlds	p. 251
Efficient Virtual Collision Detection for Multiple Users in Large Virtual Spaces	p. 271
Virtual and Real Object Collisions in a Merged Environment	p. 287
Level-of-Detail Generation and its Applications in Virtual Reality	p. 299
University of Alberta 3D Modelling Tools	p. 313
Interactive Visualization of a Beating Heart: A Medical Application of the Virtual Workbench	p. 315
The Virtual Environment Theater as an Architectural and Urban Design Review System	p. 319
Dancing with the Virtual Dervish: Virtual Bodies	p. 321
Author Index	p. 329
Color Plates	p. 331
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