Immersive Virtual Reality and 3 D Interaction for Task Performance and Embodiment

From the Interactive Media Games Seminar Series; Bireswar Laha, from the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University examines how VR leverages immersive hardware components to create an alternate environment for the viewer. This alternate world has avatars (virtual representation of humans), and can produce feedback (visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and haptic) to all the five senses, often with a fidelity closely matching that of the real world. The designers of this alternate world has