In this paper, the use of head mounted display immersive virtual reality (VR) is investigated as both a cable harness design routing and an assembly planning tool. Due to the nature of this technology being more intuitive as an interface for generating design and process planning information, it is important to understand in detail the activities being carried out by the designer whilst immerse...

This introduction to the special collection “Human Mortality over Age, Time, Sex, and Place: The 1 HMD Symposium” describes the Human Mortality Database project and briefly summarizes the Special Collection articles. This article is part of Demographic Research Special Collection 4, “Human Mortality over Age, Time, Sex, and Place: The 1 HMD Symposium”. Please see Volume 13, Publications 13-10 t...

Although large-scale stereoscopic 3D environments like CAVEs are a favorable location for group presentations, the perspective projection and stereoscopic optimization usually follows a navigator-centric approach. Therefore, these presentations are usually accompanied by strong side-effects, such as motion sickness which is often caused by a disturbed stereoscopic vision. The reason is that the...

Operating systems today are created for two-dimensional systems. Virtual reality is the most logical possibility to replace current systems. Virtual Reality must prove to be a useful alternative that offers a more powerful way of interacting with the computer. The VR operating system has special design considerations. To create the system would cost an extravagant amount of money. The VR operat...

Korea is constructing its information highway scheduled for completion by 2015. However, not all this highway infrastructure is part of the national strategy. The development plan includes extensive software applications for the movie, game, and multimedia industries. At the present time the Internet can represented as the sea of information (cyber space) which can be searched for any informati...

Digital immersive virtual environment technology (IVET) enables behavioral scientists to conduct ecologically realistic experiments with near perfect experimental control. We employed IVET to study the interpersonal distance maintained between participants and virtual humans. In study one, participants traversed a three-dimensional virtual room in which a virtual human stood. In study two, a vi...