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Interaction with a desktop virtual environment: a 2D view into a 3D world

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With the development of computer software and hardware in the past few years, it has been possible to produce effective training virtual environments on everyday personal computers with little expert training required for users or designers. However, the development of the equipment that enables this has brought little coinciding research on what features to include when designing these environments. Despite these increased advances in PC capabilities for desktop virtual environments (VEs), there are still limitations on the number of objects that can be programmed to be interactive, usually due to restrictions on programming time and cost. As a result, it is often left to the programmer to decide which of the objects included to increase the realism of the environment will be interactive and which aesthetic. The work presented in this paper is an experiment that aims to establish a guide for environment designers to aid effective environment interaction development by identifying key elements in a VE design.

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  1. For this reason interaction with doors within the environment was not included in the results section.

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  1. Virtual Reality Applications Research Team (VIRART), School of MMMEM, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

    Eleanor Marshall & Sarah Nichols

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Marshall, E., Nichols, S. Interaction with a desktop virtual environment: a 2D view into a 3D world. Virtual Reality 8, 17–25 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-004-0132-2

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