Direct Manipulation in Virtual Reality
STEVE BRYSON, NASA Ames Research Center
21.1 Introduction
21.1.1 Direct Manipulation in Virtual Reality for Scientific Visualization
Virtual-reality interfaces offer several advantages for scientific visualization, such as the ability to perceive 3D data structures in a natural way [1,2,7,11,14]. The focus of this chapter is direct manipulation, the ability for a user in virtual reality to control objects in the virtual environment in a direct and natural way, much as objects are manipulated in the real world. Direct manipulation provides many advantages for the exploration of complex, multidimensional datasets, by allowing the investigator the ability to intuitively explore the data environment. ...
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