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Immersive virtual aquarium with real-walking navigation

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VRCAI '13: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry

Pages 291 - 294

https://doi.org/10.1145/2534329.2534367

Published: 17 November 2013 Publication History

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In this paper, we propose a new immersive virtual aquarium system that comprises enhanced navigation, shared user experience, and manipulation in virtual reality. The system utilizes a large studio that allows users to walk around naturally and operates as a surrogate for navigation in the virtual aquarium. It also provides an additional view that shows what is happening in the virtual aquarium to observers. The system can be regarded as a form of augmented virtuality as it superimposes a live video avatar of users into the virtual aquarium. In addition, each user can interact with virtual fishes via 3D gestures because the system also utilizes a gesture recognition method that is suitable for the physically large space. These features enable our proposed system to give users and observers a more immersive and novel experience than conventional virtual reality systems.

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  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
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VRCAI '13: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry

November 2013

325 pages

ISBN:9781450325905

DOI:10.1145/2534329

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Charlie C. L. Wang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Zhigeng Pan
Hangzhou Normal University, China

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VRCAI 2013: 12th ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry

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