Workshop on Research Directions in Virtual Reality

该研讨会是由美国国家科学基金会发起的计划研讨会，旨在确定虚拟现实领域中值得未来资助的研究问题。“虚拟现实”被许多人认为是对一个非常受欢迎的领域的拙劣和不准确的描述。它的各种描述包括一套提供紧密耦合、高度交互、主要是3D视觉体验的功能，在这种体验中，用户有一种沉浸在3D计算机生成环境中的感觉。其他描述描述了模拟对象与来自真实环境的诸如图像的常规对象的混合。甚至其他描述包括扭曲感知的视觉空间和时间，或者强调对虚拟现实中的对象的直接操纵，或者强调两个或更多人在共享的模拟场景中的协调体验。研讨会的主要目标是确定虚拟现实中最重要的基础研究领域，确定NSF资助的基础研究与其他项目的关系，并就持续基础研究所需的基础设施提出一套建议。邀请性研讨会的参与者代表了虚拟现实领域的研究人员的平衡，包括获得国家科学基金资助的研究人员和政府和工业实验室的研究人员。研讨会的重点是四个研究领域：感知、人机交互、硬件和应用

This workshop is an NSF-initiated planning workshop to determine research problems in the area of virtual reality that deserve future funding. "Virtual Reality" is thought by many to be a poor and inaccurate description of an enormously popular field. It's various descriptions include a set of capabilities to deliver a tightly coupled, highly interactive, principally 3D visual experience in which the user has the feeling of being immersed in a 3D computer-generated environment. Other descriptions describe a mixture of simulated objects with customary objects, such as images, from real environments. Even other descriptions include warping of the perceived visual space and time or emphasize direct manipulation of objects in the virtual reality or the coordinated experience of two or more persons in a shared simulation scenario. The main goals of the workshop are to identify the most important areas of basic research in virtual reality, to determine the relationship of NSF-funded basic research to other programs, and to produce a set of recommendations on the infrastructure required for sustained basic research. The invitational workshop participants represent a balance of researchers in the area of virtual reality including researchers with NSF grants and researchers in government and industrial laboratories. The workshop focused on four research areas: perception, human-machine interaction, hardware, and applications