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22. People Occlusion

Jayven Nhan1  
(1)
Waterloo, ON, Canada
 

People occlusion is the effect of hiding virtual content when accounting for the relative distance between physical human and virtual content. When a person stands in front of virtual content, he/she should hide the parts of the content which he/she covers. When the same person stands behind the virtual content, the virtual content should conceal the human’s parts that the virtual content covers. That’s the gist of people occlusion.

People occlusion adds realism to an augmented reality experience. Thus, it also greatly enhances user ...

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