ABSTRACT

Virtual reality (VR) is a term that describes a variety of computer-mediated techniques that are used to represent various aspects of the physical world to the user. Although most of the current techniques deal with representations of the visual environment, consideration has also been given to representing the entire human sensory environment including visual, auditory, touch, and motion domains. Consequently, virtual environment (VE) is often used as the more descriptive term of this family of computeraugmented techniques.