VR for Public Consumption

Notes from the Workshop at IEEE VR04
Organized by: Dave Pape, Maria Roussou, Josephine Anstey

Cosmus: Virtual 3D Cosmology in Public Science Museums

Stephanie Andrews, Dinoj Surendran, Randall H. Landsberg, Eric Jojola, Leo Kadanoff, Ronen Mir, Joi Podgorny, Daniela Rosner, Mark SubbaRao

URL: astro.uchicago.edu/cosmus

The VR Portal: Interfacing the Art World

Geoffrey Baum, Todd Margolis, Keith Miller

URL: www.appliedinteractives.com/

Experiences with Virtual Reality Accessibility in an African Context

Charlene Beirowski, Hendranus Vermeulen

Contact address: char (at) cs.uct.ac.za; hvermeul (at) cs.uct.ac.za

PDF: beirowski.pdf

URL: www.caves.co.za

VRizer - Using Arbitrary OpenGL Software in the CAVE or other Virtual Environments

Florian Berger, Christopher Lindinger, Wolfgang Ziegler

PDF: berger.pdf

Efficient, Intuitive User Interfaces for Classroom-Based Immersive Virtual Environments

Doug Bowman, Matthew Gracey, John Lucas

Contact address: bowman (at) vt.edu

PDF: bowman.pdf

Slides: bowman_slides.pdf

URL: research.cs.vt.edu/3di/projects/education/education2.html

A Framework for User-guided Multi-Resolution 3D Reconstruction

Felicia Brisc

Slides: brisc_slides.pdf

Published as: "Creating Virtual Models from Uncalibrated Camera Views", F. Brisc, Eurographics Ireland 2004 Workshop

VR for Public Spaces: What do they really want?

Jim Costigan

Contact address: jim (at) visual-acuity.com

Slides: costigan_slides.pdf

URL: www.visual-acuity.com

Inside and Out: Finding a Balance Between Active and Passive Participation for the Public and Performers

Marientina Gotsis, Geoffrey Baum, Kang Sun

Game Technology for Educational Virtual Worlds: CaveUT and the Temple of Horus

Jeffrey Jacobson

URL: planetjeff.net/ut/CaveUT.html

Navigation with auditory cues in virtual environments

Tapio Lokki, Matti Grohn

Contact address: Tapio.Lokki (at) hut.fi

Slides: lokki_slides.pdf

Paper to appear in IEEE Multimedia (2005)

Earlier paper: Grohn.pdf

Virtual Reality and the Internal Experience

Alison McMahan, Rebecca Tortell

Contact address: alisonmcmahan (at) aol.com

PDF: mcmahan.pdf

URL: www.alisonmcmahan.com

Virtual Reality for Location-Based Entertainment: Lessons Learned Building DisneyQuest

Mark Mine

Building Immersive VR Experiences for the General Public: Technical, Economical and Ergonomic Choices

David Nahon

Contact address: nahon (at) virtools.com

PDF: nahon.pdf

URL: david.cyber-nahon.net

Virtual Vouni, the Museum of the Future

Bino Nord, Tomas Cool Colbengtson

Contact address: binocool (at) nada.kth.se

PDF: nord.pdf

URL: www.virtualrules.net

The VR-Desktop: an Accessible Approach to VR Environments in Teaching and Research

George Otto, Loukas Kalisperis, Jack Gundrum, Katsuhiko Muramoto, Gavin Burris, Ray Masters, Elena Slobounov, Jamie Heilman, Vijay Agarwala

Immersive Virtual Environment Research in the College of Fine Arts

Lucy Petrovich

Contact address: lucy (at) u.arizona.edu

PDF: petrovich.pdf

URL: www.arts.arizona.edu/lucy/desert.html

URL: www.arts.arizona.edu/art532a/

The Virtual Classroom: A Virtual Environment for the Assessment of Attention Processes in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Albert Rizzo, Dean Klimchuk, Roman Mitura

Contact address: arizzo (at) usc.edu

PDF: rizzo.pdf

URL: imsc.usc.edu

Virtual Reality Art Projects: A Research in Interactive Narratives, Navigational Systems and Stereoscopic Projection Systems

Agueda Simo

Real-time visual simulation models in an exhibition environment

Lisa Snyder

Contact address: lms (at) ucla.edu

PDF: snyder.pdf

URL: www.ust.ucla.edu

Virtual Hang-gliding over Rio de Janeiro

Luciano Soares, Leonardo Nomura, Marcio Cabral, Lucas Dulley, Marcelo Guimaraes, Roseli Lopes, Marcelo Zuffo

Contact address: lsoares (at) lsi.usp.br

PDF: soares.pdf

Slides: soares_slides.ppt

URL: www.lsi.usp.br/interativos/nrv/hangGlidingRJ.html

Virtual Reality for Every School

Wylmarie Sykes, Robert Reid, Brett Reid

URL: www.sunrisevr.com

Design and Implementation Parameters of Mobile VR/AR Platforms for Cultural Heritage Applications

Vassilios Vlahakis, Thanos Demiris, Nicos Ioannidis

Contact address: vvla (at) intracom.gr

PDF: vlahakis.pdf

Slides: vlahakis_slides.pdf

URL: archeoguide.intranet.gr

URL: www.miralab.unige.ch/subpages/lifeplus/

LISTEN - Augmenting everyday environments through interactive soundscapes

Olivier Warusfel, Gerhard Eckel

PDF: warusfel.pdf

Towards a Workflow and Interaction Framework for Virtual Aquaria

Gordon Wetzstein, Peter Stephenson

Contact address: ps (at) imedia-academy.net

PDF: stephenson.pdf

Slides: stephenson_slides.pdf

URL: www.imedia-academy.org

Virtual Reality Applications in Undergraduate Education

Jeffrey Will