• DocumentCode
    2429659
  • Title

    VR - Past, Present and Future

  • Author

    Foley, Jim

  • Author_Institution
    Georgia Tech
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    39142
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VR.2007.352456
  • Filename
    4160998