Virtual Realities International Dagstuhl Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 9-14, 2013, Revised Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brunnett, Guido (Editor), Coquillart, Sabine (Editor), van Liere, Robert (Editor), Welch, Gregory (Editor), Váša, Libor (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8844
• Subjects: Computer science.; Multimedia information systems.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Graphics.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Virtual reality (VR) is a multidisciplinary area of research aimed at interactive human–computer-mediated simulations of artificial environments. An important aspect of VR-based systems is the stimulation of the human senses – usually sight, sound, and touch – in such a way that a user feels a sense...

Table of Contents:

• VR Environments
• Live Will Never Be the Same! How Broadcasting Might Influence the Acceptance and Widespread Usage of Augumented Reality
• Four Metamorphosis States in a Distributed Virtual (TV) Studio: Human, Cyborg, Avatar, and Bot – Markerless Tracking and Feedback for Realtime Animation Control
• VELOS - A VR Environment for Ship Applications: Current Status and Planned Extensions
• Underwater Mixed Environments
• Interaction and User Experience A Critical Analysis of Human-Subject Experiments in Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
• Mobile Devices for Virtual Reality Interaction. A Survey of Techniques and Metaphors
• Hand Pose Recognition — Overview and Current Research
• Virtual Humans
• Applications of Avatar Mediated Interaction to Teaching, Training, Job Skills and Wellness
• VR-Assisted Physical Rehabilitation: Adapting to the Needs of Therapists and Patients
• Hierarchical Method for Segmentation by Classification of Motion Capture Data
• Content Creation and Authoring Challenges for Virtual Environments: From User Interfaces to Autonomous Virtual Characters
• Tele-Existence
• Technical Report: Exploring Human Surrogate Characteristics
• Telexistence: Past, Present, and Future.