Virtual reality: past, present, and future
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1998-11
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Gobbetti, Enrico
Scateni, Riccardo
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IOS
Abstract
This report provides a short survey of the field of virtual reality, highlighting application domains, technological requirements, and currently available solutions. The report is organized as follows: section 1 presents the background and motivation of virtual environment research and identifies typical application domains, section 2 discusses the characteristics a virtual reality system must have in order to exploit the perceptual and spatial skills of users, section 3 surveys current input/output devices for virtual reality, section 4 surveys current software approaches to support the creation of virtual reality systems, and section 5 summarizes the report.
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virtual reality , 3D , object-oriented graphics