Virtual Reality Headsets - A Theoretical and Pragmatic Approach

Fuchs, Philippe

doi:10.1201/9781315208244

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“…Ideally, a VR application should run at a frame rate that complies with the refresh rate of the head-mounted display, which is 90 Hz with the HTC Vive specification [33]. Standard recommendations from literature suggest a frame rate of at least 60 FPS [9]. Even though the recommendations were not met, stuttering or dropping frames could not be detected while navigating slowly through the terrain.…”

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“…Due to recent advances in hardware and software technology, virtual reality is becoming ubiquitous and accessible for the general public, as several companies have brought low-cost high-quality head-mounted systems to the market. However, technological progress and its accessibility are mainly owed to the wealthy video game industry that can effort to invest so much in pioneering industry [9]. Therefore, many applications are designed for video games and, only recently, more and more other disciplines deploy VR.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Virtual Reality in Cartography: Immersive 3D Visualization of the Arctic Clyde Inlet (Canada) Using Digital Elevation Models and Bathymetric Data

Lütjens

Kersten

Dorschel

et al. 2019

MTI

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Due to rapid technological development, virtual reality (VR) is becoming an accessible and important tool for many applications in science, industry, and economy. Being immersed in a 3D environment offers numerous advantages especially for the presentation of geographical data that is usually depicted in 2D maps or pseudo 3D models on the monitor screen. This study investigated advantages, limitations, and possible applications for immersive and intuitive 3D terrain visualizations in VR. Additionally, in view of ever-increasing data volumes, this study developed a workflow to present large scale terrain datasets in VR for current mid-end computers. The developed immersive VR application depicts the Arctic fjord Clyde Inlet in its 160 km × 80 km dimensions at 5 m spatial resolution. Techniques, such as level of detail algorithms, tiling, and level streaming, were applied to run the more than one gigabyte large dataset at an acceptable frame rate. The immersive VR application offered the possibility to explore the terrain with or without water surface by various modes of locomotion. Terrain textures could also be altered and measurements conducted to receive necessary information for further terrain analysis. The potential of VR was assessed in a user survey of persons from six different professions.

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Virtual Reality in Cartography: Immersive 3D Visualization of the Arctic Clyde Inlet (Canada) Using Digital Elevation Models and Bathymetric Data

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Kersten

Dorschel

et al. 2019

MTI

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“…One of the main issue important to consider is cybersickness, which can bring users to reject the tool or miss learning objectives. As explained by many authors [21,33], sensory conflicts are mainly behind cybersickness issues. Visually moving through the virtual environment while staying stationary in the real world is one of the main causes.…”

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Ad-hoc Study on Soldiers Calibration Procedure in Virtual Reality

Taupiac¹,

Hodriguez²,

Strauss³

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)

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“…VR applications differ from other vision applications due to their innate concern to provide content to all possible VR viewpoints. Furthermore, VR headsets can isolate the spectator both visually and acoustically from the real world [2]. Spherical panoramic content may be presented in different projection types: equirectangular (ERP), rectilinear, doughnut, cube-map, and multiview [3].…”

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“…x and σ 2 y are the variance of the corresponding images, whereas σ xy is the covariance of image X and Y . Also, C 1 = (k 1 L) 2 and C 1 = (k 2 L) 2 are stability parameters, where K 1 = 0.01 and k 2 = 0.03. Peak Signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) is the most used metric for image quality assessment and can be computed using MSE as:…”

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Visual assessment of equirectangular images for virtual reality applications In Unity

Gil

Khurshid

Postal

et al. 2019

Anais Estendidos Do XXXII Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBRAPI Estendido 2019)

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Virtual Reality (VR) applications provide an immersive experience when using panoramic images that contain a 360-degree view of the scene. Currently, the equirectangular image format is the widely used pattern to represent these panoramic images. The development of a virtual reality viewer of panoramic images should consider several parameters that define the quality of the rendered image. Such parameters include resolution configurations, texture-to-objects mappings and deciding from different rendering approach, but to select the optimal value of these parameters, visual quality analysis is required. In this work, we propose a tool integrated within Unity editor to automate this quality assessment using different settings for the visualization of equirectangular images. We compare the texture mapping of a skybox with a procedural sphere and a cubemap using full-reference objective metrics for Image Quality Analysis (IQA). Based on the assessment results, the tool decides how the final image will be rendered at the target device to produce a visually pleasing and high-quality image.

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Virtual Reality Headsets - A Theoretical and Pragmatic Approach

Cited by 67 publications

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Virtual Reality in Cartography: Immersive 3D Visualization of the Arctic Clyde Inlet (Canada) Using Digital Elevation Models and Bathymetric Data

Virtual Reality in Cartography: Immersive 3D Visualization of the Arctic Clyde Inlet (Canada) Using Digital Elevation Models and Bathymetric Data

Ad-hoc Study on Soldiers Calibration Procedure in Virtual Reality

Visual assessment of equirectangular images for virtual reality applications In Unity

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