ABSTRACT
Advances in Virtual Reality and its applications demonstrate the enhancement in the real-life feeling as the visual realism is increased. Insu Yu et al. 2012, have conducted experiments investigating the human sense (presence) in the virtual environment with more and less natural characteristics, showing higher ‘presence’ results in the enhanced virtual environment, while Lee et al. in (Lee et al. 2013) have examined the performance of humans in search tasks in an augmented reality and realworld scene showing minimum or indistinguishable results. In another work, Liu et al. in (Liu et al. 2009) identify the significance of texture in the visual realism and provide a method for the texture synthesis in the simulation of surgeries. Hence, the visual representation of data, positively affects the human-sense, while the use of additional information does not seem to have a negative role in the evaluation of visual information.
