Immersive Virtual Environments (VEs) were conceived 40 years ago. Despite this, there are still more VE systems used in research about VEs than are used as tools to solve real users' problems. Our goal is to make VE systems more effective for doing real work by:
We congratulate Tabitha C. Peck, Mary C. Whitton, and Henry Fuchs for receiving Honorable Mention for their paper “Evaluation of Reorientation Techniques for Walking in Large Virtual Environments,” presented last week at the 2008 IEEE Virtual Reality conference.
Several of us will be at the IEEE Virtual Reality conference and its colocated symposia this week in Reno, Nevada. Feel free to say hello!
Jeff Feasel, Jeremy Wendt, and Mary Whitton had their paper LLCM-WIP: Low-Latency, Continuous-Motion Walking-In-Place accepted in IEEE 3D User Interfaces 2008. They will present the paper in March of 2008.
Tabitha Peck, Mary Whitton, and Henry Fuchs had their paper Evaluation of Reorientation Techniques for Walking in Large Virtual Environments accepted for publication at the 2008 IEEE Virtual Reality conference. They will present the paper in Reno, Nevada in March of 2008.
Luv Kohli and Eric Burns had their short paper Combining Passive Haptics with Redirected Walking accepted at the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence 2005. Luv and Eric presented the paper in Christchurch, New Zealand in December 2005.
Pictured to the right is Eric (left) and Luv (right) in front of Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand.
EVE’s tracker space has been updated to take advantage of the full 8 meter by 5 meter ceiling tracker. New wooden walls were also created to surround the expanded space. The current tracked head-mounted display can now be powered by any of three development PCs located adjacent to the ceiling tracker.
Pictured to the right is research assistant Chris Oates pulling cables out from the floor during the recent move.