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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality

by Karen McMenemy, Robin Stuart Ferguson
July 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
604 pages
17h 36m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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80 4. Building a Practical VR System
Figure 4.21. By placing markers (the letters A, C and D) on the objects to be tracked,
it is possible to determine their locations within the scene and track their movement.
Using multiple camera views allows the tracking to continue so long as each marker is
visible in at least one camera’s field of view. (Scene courtesy of Dr. B. M. Armstrong
and Mr. D. Moore.)
4.3.5 Mechanical Tracking
Mechanical tracking determines the position of a tracked point by connecting
it to a reference point via an articulated linkage of some kind. H aptic devices
used to give force feedback in a limited desktop working volume ...
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ISBN: 9781568814773