Virtual Environments ’98: Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Stuttgart, Germany, June 16–18, 1998

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Advances in Bridging the Gap: Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Productivity....Pages 1-7
New Trends in Virtual Environment User Interface Research: Case Studies at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory....Pages 8-17
Teraflop Visualization....Pages 18-27
Virtual Reality in Medicine: Developing the Visualization and Interaction Technology for the 21st Century....Pages 28-37
Making Virtual Worlds Work in a Real World....Pages 38-44
Experiences from an Inhabited Television experiment....Pages 45-63
Grounding & Awareness Management: Two Architectural Principles for Collaborative Virtual Worlds....Pages 64-79
Remote Object Translation Methods for Immersive Virtual Environments....Pages 80-89
Meet.Me@Cyberstage: towards Immersive Telepresence....Pages 90-102
VR Geo — Planning Tool for the Redevelopment of Landscape....Pages 103-113
Design of A Virtual Environment That Employs Attention-Driven Interaction and Prioritization....Pages 114-123
Navigation in real and virtual environments: Judging orientation and distance in a large-scale landscape....Pages 124-133
Analyzing draft tube characteristics for hydraulic turbines in a VR environment....Pages 134-141
Collaborative Volume Rendering in a Distributed Virtual Reality Environment....Pages 142-150
Sharing virtual environments over a transatlantic ATM network in support of distant collaboration in vehicle design....Pages 151-161
Architecture and Digital Exhibitions the Einstein Tower World....Pages 162-171
Hybrid Approaches to Interactions between Real and Virtual Humans in Mixed Environments....Pages 172-181
An interactive face robot able to create virtual communication with human....Pages 182-194
A Flexible Prototyping Tool for 3D Real-Time User-Interaction....Pages 195-203
Reactive Virtual Environment System: LivingWorlds multi-user world....Pages 204-215
Strolling Through Cyberspace With Your Hands In Your Pockets: Head Directed Navigation In Virtual Environments....Pages 216-225
Automatic Facial Expression Composition from Base Faces....Pages 226-234
Symbolic representations of exclude and include for audio sources and sinks: Figurative suggestions of & and & ....Pages 235-242
“The Virtual Endeavour” — a VR-Gallery Application for Remote Multimedia Data Access....Pages 243-252
Automotive Panel: Using VR in the Automotive Business....Pages 253-255
Panel: Virtual Reality in the telecommunications industry — current state and future....Pages 256-261
Virtual Reality and the Link between Design and Engineering Analysis....Pages 262-269
Virtual Environment for Education and Training in Safety Engineering and Maintenance....Pages 270-279
Window into Virtuality — A Sales-Support-System based on ideas and technology components out of the Virtual Reality area....Pages 280-281
Virtual Reality Applications for Spacecraft Operations....Pages 282-287
Industrial Application Potential of Virtual Reality An Empirical Study of Demands, Barriers, and Drivers....Pages 288-301
Layout Planning of Manufacturing Systems with VR-based Construction Sets....Pages 302-311
Creating VR-based setups for the study of human motor behaviour....Pages 312-320
Applying the Third Dimension to E-Commerce....Pages 321-327
Back Matter....Pages 329-335