[{"key":"dc.contributor.author","value":"Maksakov, Evgeny","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.accessioned","value":"2009-09-21T18:39:37Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.available","value":"2009-09-21T18:39:37Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.issued","value":"2009","language":null},{"key":"dc.identifier.uri","value":"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/12925","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.abstract","value":"Whale Tank Virtual Reality is a novel technique for collocated collaboration in virtual\nreality. It provides a simple solution for head-coupled virtual reality technology allowing\nmore than one user at a time to observe a 3D scene from a correct perspective. Whale\nTank VR employs natural interaction using a large touch screen display. It provides each\nuser with a personal viewport into the virtual scene that may be joined and shared with\nother users\u2019 viewports in certain circumstances of collaboration.\nWe conducted an experiment to study the influence of head coupling on users\u2019\nawareness-and-recall of collocated coworker\u2019s actions. The study employed a simulated\ncollaborative situation under several levels of task difficulty. The results revealed no\nstatistically significant difference in awareness-and-recall performance with or without\nthe presence of head coupling. This suggests that in situations where head coupling is\nemployed, there is no degradation in users' awareness of collocated activity.\nThere are a number of benefits to Whale Tank VR. The head coupling is\nadvantageous because it allows a user to experience the sense of a third dimension and\nto observe difficult-to-see objects without requiring additional navigation other than\nnatural head movement. The multiple viewports available in our Whale Tank VR\ntechnique enable collocated collaboration by seamlessly adjusting the head-coupled\nperspectives in each viewport according to the proximity of the collaborators to ensure\na consistent display at all times.","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.format.extent","value":"1578421 bytes","language":null},{"key":"dc.format.mimetype","value":"application\/pdf","language":null},{"key":"dc.language.iso","value":"eng","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.publisher","value":"University of British Columbia","language":null},{"key":"dc.rights","value":"Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International","language":null},{"key":"dc.rights.uri","value":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/","language":null},{"key":"dc.title","value":"Whale Tank Virtual Reality","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type","value":"Text","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.name","value":"Master of Science - MSc","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.discipline","value":"Computer Science","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.grantor","value":"University of British Columbia","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.graduation","value":"2009-11","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type.text","value":"Thesis\/Dissertation","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Science, Faculty of","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Computer Science, Department of","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.campus","value":"UBCV","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.scholarlevel","value":"Graduate","language":"en"}]