Title :
VR - Past, Present and Future
Author_Institution :
Georgia Tech
Abstract :
VR has come a long way - from clunky, mechanically-tracked HMDs driven by multi-million dollar computers - to sleek wireless HMDs driven by commodity PCs and graphics cards - and many purported VR applications don\´t use HMDs at all. Applications have expanded from scientific, engineering and military to entertainment and social networking. The meaning of VR has changed. In this talk I ask (and endeavor to answer) questions such as: "What is the essence of VR?"; "What is the future of VR?"; "How has VR changed?"; "What is the science behind VR?"; and "What are open VR research questions?"
Keywords :
Application software; Computer graphics; Computer science; Educational institutions; Military computing; Personal communication networks; Social network services; Telecommunication computing; Virtual reality; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Reality Conference, 2007. VR '07. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Charlotte, NC, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0906-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0906-3
DOI :
10.1109/VR.2007.352456
