Surround vision systems: the role of object orientated programming

A new and developing area in human-computer interaction is that of the synthetic environment or virtual workstation. This is where an operator, wearing a display device on his head, is presented with suitable sensory information simulating a desired situation. To accomplish this, aside from the complex technological problems of creating all of the appropriate sensations for the operator, methods must be found to represent the imaginary world within which he sits. At present, the most suitable candidate for handling with this problem is the object orientated programming approach. A simple introduction to this, with particular reference to this problem, is given. A current scheme for object representation is also discussed