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Virtual reality and telepresence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Robert Stone
Robert Stone
Affiliation:
UK National Advanced Robotics Research Centre, University Road, Salfora M5 4PP (UK)
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Summary

The UK Advanced Robotics Research Centre's VERDEX Project (Virtual Environment demote Driving Experiment) is an experimental test bed for investigating telepresence and virtual reality technologies in the design of human-system interfaces for telerobots. The achievements of the Project to date include the transformation of scanning laser rangefinder output to stereo virtual imagery (viewed using the VPL EyePhoneTM), the Teletact® Tactile Feedback Glove (for use with the VPL DataGloveTM), a high-speed, head-slaved stereo TV system, and a T800/i860 SuperVisionTM graphics/video parallel processing system.

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Robotica , Volume 10 , Issue 5 , September 1992 , pp. 461 - 467
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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