
86 Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies
progress made possible by these techniques in the fields of interaction and multi-sensory
stimulation. It is also necessary to remember that the selections made by the virtual
reality system designers are partially arbitrary, as when it concerns describing the
immersive capabilities of certain systems (is a visualisation headset more immersive
than a screen device like CAVE ?). There, we deal with the question of the contributions
of the basic research in Behavioural Sciences to virtual reality.
4.3 CONTRIBUTION OF BEH AVIOURAL
SCIENCES TO VIRTUAL RE ALITY
The virtual reality technologies were originally ...