Processing for Android: Create Mobile, Sensor-aware, and XR Applications Using Processing

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A. ColubriProcessing for Androidhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9585-4_16

16. Basics of VR

Andrés Colubri¹  

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University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA

 

In this chapter, we will learn some of the basic techniques to create VR apps with Processing. These techniques cover object selection, interaction, and movement in VR space, and using eye coordinates to create static frames of reference to facilitate user experience.

Brief History of VR

Virtual reality has a much longer history than we may think. Stereoscopic photo viewers dating back to the first half of the 18th century already contain the basic idea behind VR, which is the use of two separate ...