Applications

• Consumer products and experience

• Education and training

• Entertainment

• Gaming

• History and culture

• Industrial

• Medical and healthcare

• Military

• Rehabilitation

• Social computing

• Virtual worlds and long-term persistent environments

Interaction and navigation in VAMR

• Avatar instantiation

• Human factors

• Immersion

• Locomotion

• Orientation and navigation

• Teleoperation, puppeteering, and autonomy

• Human-robot interaction and remote systems

Issues in development and use of VAMR

• Distributed environments

• Embodiment

• Fidelity

• Occlusion

• Performance measurement

• Platform requirements

• Presence in VAMR

  • Criteria and measurement

  • Design issues

• Sensory and perception

• Simulator sickness

• Situational awareness

Underlying & supporting technologies

• Alternative computing environments

  • Wearable

  • Pervasive computing

• CAVE and multi-participant environments

• Head mounted displays

  • Field of view

  • Resolution

  • Rendering speed

  • Parallax and perspective

• Mobile systems

• Multimodal interfaces

• Sensory substitution

• Telepresence systems

• Tracking technologies

• Visualization and image rendering