Research Projects

Research Projects Links

• The NPSNET Research Group First academic multi-user VR project, currently investigating large-scale, persistent, dynamically-extensible VEs.
  
• Project IRMA Project IRMA is a Configurable Virtual Reality System for Multi-purpose Industrial Manufacturing Application.
  
• Presence Research Resources A comprehensive and up-to-date academic resource site on virtual reality, telepresence and advanced media.
  
• ScienceSpace Project Explores the strengths and limits of virtual reality (sensory immersion, 3-D representation) as a medium for science education at GMU.
  
• Virtual Environment Technologies Centre The VETC is a world class facility containing VR technology that is revolutionizing conceptualization, design, and simulation in a wide array of industries.
  
• Phobia Treatment in VR Treatment of phobias such as fear of heights and claustrophobia using virtual reality.
  
• UNC Pixel-Planes and Pixel-Flow Research in revolutionary hardware architecture for 3D graphics.
  
• Human-Computer Interaction BUILD-IT is a graspable interface for virtual environments based on real bricks.
  
• Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior Multi-disciplinary virtual environment research center at the University of Califoria, Santa Barbara. Uses immersive virtual environment techology to study numerous aspects of human behavior.
  
• Head Tracker Research The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's research group on Wide-Area Head-Tracker research for virtual reality and augmented reality applications.
  
• Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida VR group page at UCF/IST including descriptions of studies of virtual reality for training purposes.
  
• UNC Geometric and Physically-Based Modeling Projects on collision detection, solid modeling, visibility culling, simplification, and more.
  
• UNC Nanomanipulator Project A virtual-environment interface to Scanned-Probe Microscopes.
  
• UNC Walkthrough Project Long-running project, whose goal is to allow viewers to experience architectural models in a simulated fashion.
  
• TU Vienna Virtual Environments group This page gives an overview of current and ongoing research on virtual environments at the TU Vienna. Projects focus on real-time graphics, user interfaces and multi-user systems.
  
• VISI A Virtual and 3D user interfaces project. Information, Links, Publications and more.
  
• Force Feedback Research at UNC-CH On-going research into haptic feedback issues.
  
• The Visual Interaction Platform the development of a new generation of computer Working towards interfaces in which the virtual world of the computer is better integrated with the real world of the users(s). Such interfaces are referred to as Augmented Reality(AR) or as Natural User Interfaces (NUIs).