Tactile display of virtual reality from the World Wide Web—a potential access method for blind people

Displays ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hardwick ◽  
S. Furner ◽  
J. Rush
2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Keren

Abstract: Blogging, the publication of on-line diaries with links to other Web sites, is a recent activity and yet is already producing its celebrities. The author analyzes diary entries posted over five years by one master blogger, and his relations with his readers, to try to originate preliminary hypotheses on the politics of blogging. Observation of blogging in one of its most glamorous manifestations suggests that the new emancipation achieved by self-representation on the World Wide Web may be associated with what Scott Lash has called “the politics of melancholy,” here characterized by preference for virtual reality, formation of a cult-like community, and political passivity. Résumé : Le blogage, qui consiste à afficher son journal personnel en ligne en y incluant des liens vers des sites connexes, est une activité récente et pourtant elle a déjà ses célébrités. L’auteur analyse les entrées de journal d’un maître bloggeur sur une durée de cinq ans ainsi que ses rapports avec ses lecteurs, en vue de développer des hypothèses préliminaires sur la politique du blogage. L’observation du blogage dans une de ses manifestations les plus attrayantes suggère que l’on peut associer la nouvelle émancipation que permet la représentation de soi sur le Web à ce que Scott Lash appelle « la politique de la mélancolie », caractérisée ici par une préférence pour la réalité virtuelle, la formation d’une communauté ressemblant à un culte et la passivité politique.


1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
J. Fred Henderson

The author surveyed the World Wide Web using a number of Internet based search engines and VR resource pages to identify more than 11,300 open text sites dealing with virtual reality. This article identifies several hundred of the best devoted to VRML, VR news groups, VR resources, VR projects, VR software, VR hardware, academic and laboratories involved in VR, associations, publications, companies, and government agencies specializing in VR. The URLs are provided in the printed article. The CD-ROM that accompanies the printed journal also provides direct links to the sites when this article is viewed while simultaneously connected to the World Wide Web.


Author(s):  
Jiung-Yao Huang

Along with the popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW), merging the virtual reality technique into the WWW environment is a popular area of research in recent years. The emerging of the VRML standard is the result of such effort. The panoramic image viewer is another achievement of this type of research. However, these two types of browsers have their own merits and faults, and these differences are revealed in the discrepancy of their respective user interfaces. This chapter presents a frame synchronization technique so that the display on the VRML browser can harmonize with the picture of the panoramic image viewer. This chapter first presents an in-depth full comparison of these two browsers, and then draws out the issues that are essential to synchronize the frame displays on these two browsers. The equations and mechanisms to enable such synchronization then follow. Finally, the frame synchronization mechanism that was implemented with experiments to demonstrate its effectiveness is also given. The frame synchronization mechanism provides a simple yet effective method to increase visualization realism inside the virtual world without sacrificing the freedom of navigation.


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Williams Cronin ◽  
Ty Tedmon-Jones ◽  
Lora Wilson Mau

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document