Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Modeling and rendering architecture from photographs: a hybrid geometry- and image-based approach
SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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A practical analytic model for daylight
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QSplat: a multiresolution point rendering system for large meshes
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The randomized z-buffer algorithm: interactive rendering of highly complex scenes
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Unstructured lumigraph rendering
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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Reviving the past: cultural heritage meets virtual reality
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Virtual reality, archeology, and cultural heritage
Interactive visualization of complex plant ecosystems
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02
User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Virtual Environments
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Interactive Sampling and Rendering for Complex and Procedural Geometry
Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques
Casting curved shadows on curved surfaces
SIGGRAPH '78 Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A Front-Ended Approach to the User-Centred Design of VEs
VR '02 Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2002
View-Dependent Layered Projective Texture Maps
PG '03 Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
Perceptual audio rendering of complex virtual environments
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
Human Factors Issues in Virtual Environments: A Review of the Literature
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Learning and Building Together in an Immersive Virtual World
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Design and Evaluation of a Real-World Virtual Environment for Architecture and Urban Planning
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
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In this paper we introduce an image-based 3D capture process for the creation and display of photorealistic virtual environments (VEs). The resulting VEs aim to realistically recreate existing real-world scenes that can be displayed in a range of immersive VR systems using a high-quality, view-dependent algorithm and further enhanced using advanced vegetation, shadow display algorithms and 3D sound. The scenes, an archaeological site and an urban environment, were chosen according to real-world applications in the areas of urban planning/architecture and cultural heritage education. The users in each case are able to reconstruct or manipulate elements of the VEs according to their needs, as these have been specified through a detailed user requirements survey. Furthermore, a user task analysis and scenario-based approach has been adopted for the design of the virtual prototypes and the evaluation, which is currently underway. This work is being developed in the context of the EU-funded research project CREATE and the first examples of the prototype system in use are described and demonstrated in this paper.